The “Grand Aniva” LNG carrier has arrived at the Chita Terminal in Aichi Prefecture (Japan) with the first Sakhalin Energy’s carbon neutral/offset LNG cargo. It is delivered to the Japanese company Toho Gas to be supplied as carbon neutral city-gas to its customers, Sakhalin Energy reported.
According to Roman Dashkov, Sakhalin Energy’s Chief Executive Officer, the fact that the Japanese customers are seeking mutually acceptable commercial solutions in compensating the carbon footprint of the supplied energy sources is mainly caused by Japanese government announcing carbon neutrality by 2050. That is why all initiatives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are considered, while helping to save the global environment.
“Successful cooperation with the Asia-Pacific customers and Sakhalin Energy’s work on decarbonising the entire LNG chain from production to final usage of end-users, allows to bring Sakhalin gas supplies to Japan to the next stage. It is not only an achievement of the present day, but also the shaping of the long-term outlook for the сompany’s commercial strategy, which involves supplies of carbon neutral/offset LNG as a competitive standard offer for many years ahead,” Dashkov stressed.
The carbon neutrality/offset of the first Sakhalin-2 LNG cargo was achieved by purchasing carbon credits from one of the сompany’s shareholder’s affiliates, Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd. In addition, Sakhalin Energy is considering the possibility of obtaining Russian carbon credits using a pilot carbon trading system on Sakhalin, and the possibility to generate carbon units as a result of solutions based on the environmental assets, the company said in a statement.