The biggest Japanese oil company Inpex Corp announced its intention to sell their shares in projects to develop liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Indonesia and Australia. This step, called the credit crisis.In Indonesia, the Japanese company owns a 100% stake in the deposit Abadi, which planned to build a floating plant to produce LNG. Inpex also has a 76% interest in the deposit Ichzis near Darwin (Australia), where 24% owned by French Total. As the representative of the company, this share will be sold to Japanese companies that can implement the projects for the construction of a plant to produce LNG. This plant is to be launched in 2016, the cost of its construction will be about 10 billion dollars, and it will produce 4.5 million tons of LNG per year. Over the past 6 months, shares of Inpex lost half their value, reports Bloomberg.
