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Japanese firm expects to supply LNG to O Mon 1 thermal power plant

Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho Truong Quang Hoai Nam held a working session with representatives from Japan’s JERA Co. Inc. to discuss the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at O Mon 1 thermal power plant in Can Tho.
Japanese firm expects to supply LNG to O Mon 1 thermal power plant ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Can Tho (VNA) – Vice Chairman of the municipal People’sCommittee of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho Truong Quang Hoai Nam held a workingsession with representatives from Japan’s JERA Co. Inc. to discuss the use ofliquefied natural gas (LNG) at O Mon 1 thermal power plant in Can Tho.

Shinsuke Nakayama, a representative of the company, saidJERA now has a base depot in Vietnam and is investing in a LNG warehouse and CaNa LNG-fueled power complex with a total capacity of 6,000 MW in the southcentral province of Ninh Thuan.

JERA believes that it is able to ensure a stable LNG supplyto Can Tho at reasonable prices, firstly for the operation of the O Mon 1 thermalpower plant, he said.

Deputy General Director of the Power Transmission CompanyNo.2 Le Quoc Vu said JERA’s proposal meets the demand of the O Mon 1 thermalpower plant that will switch to the use of gas in 2021.

He added that the Power Transmission Company No.2 and JERAcould supply gas to the plant in the third quarter of 2021 at the earliest.

Nam asked JERA to soon complete a detailed plan to submit tothe city’s leaders and committed all possible support to the company during theprocess./.
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