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ExxonMobil ships first LNG cargo from $19B PNG LNG project ahead of schedule; serving China and Japan

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The first cargo is bound for LNG customer Tokyo Electric Power Co. Sinopec); Tokyo Electric Power Co. Construction of PNG LNG in Papua New Guinea began in 2010, and took more than 190 million work hours to complete. TEPCO) in Japan. TEPCO); Osaka Gas Co. and CPC Corp. million tonnes of LNG per year.

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The Seabed Solution

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Over the next decade, a great shift to electric vehicles is expected to drive up demand for cobalt, nickel, copper, and manganese—all key metals in lithium-ion batteries, and all present in minable quantities in seafloor nodules. And the timing is hardly coincidental. When it ceased operations, it hadn’t mined any metal ore at all.