Stolen directly from yahoo.
More than 45 Japanese Companies !!
Former Japanese Ambassador to PNG Tatsuo Tanaka, who is now consultant and advisor to the PNG-Japan LNG Group in Japan told the Post-Courier in Japan recently that about 45 companies, big and small have shown great interest in the LNG project and also mining and other major industries in the country. Ambassador Tanaka detailed that Japan’s second largest gas producer Osaka Gas (18 per cent-PNG), TEPCO, Tokyo Gas, Chubu Electric, Kansai Electric, Tohoku Electric, Toho Gas, Itochu, Mitsubishi and Nippon to name a few are ready and willing to tap into major businesses in PNG, especially the LNG project
Woodside Petroleum
They just lost out on some bid in Cyprus in early 2013, and are thinking about investing in a huge $44 billion NG project in Australia. You might think the lower costs of IOC's project would be given serious consideration. They could build it, do a take-off deal with XOM and get JKM to fund a major portion of the overall project costs. IOC HAS 2 MILLION NET ACRES TO DRILL.