Osaka Gas has increased the cost of alternative procurement due to a fire at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the United States. Corrected below.
According to the announcement, Osaka Gas has revealed the outlook for ordinary income of 46 billion yen for the financial results of the entire group this fiscal year.
The company originally expected ordinary income of 115 billion yen, so it has been revised significantly downward.
This is due to the fire that broke out in early June at Freeport, an export terminal in the state of Texas in the southern United States, from which LNG is procured. This is because it is expected to post a loss of
The base is expected to be fully operational by the end of the year, and Satoru Sugino, head of finance at Osaka Gas, said at a financial results conference, "This is an extremely large-scale accident, and this is the first time since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that a loss of this magnitude has been recorded, but the impact will be temporary. ' said.
Regarding the LNG development project "Sakhalin 2" in the Russian Far East, President Putin signed a presidential decree ordering that the operating entity be changed to a newly established Russian company. is procured from Sakhalin 2, and if the supply is stopped, it may be affected.We are currently collecting information."