Japan’s 10 major power utilities consumed 5.27 million mt of LNG in December, a record high for monthly imports and up 4.2% year on year, data released Friday by the Federation of Electric Power Companies showed. The major power utilities’ previous monthly record high LNG consumption was in January 2012 at 5.21 million mt, while the previous high for the month of December was in 2012 at 5.05 million mt, an FEPC official said. The power utilities also used a total 466,078 b/d of crude and fuel oil for power generation in December, down 25.9% from a year earlier, according to Platts calculations based on FEPC data. Of the total oil consumption, the utilities used 993,123 kiloliters (201,501 b/d) of crude and 1.3 million kl (264,577 b/d) of fuel oil in December, down 30.7% and 21.8%, respectively, from a year earlier, according to FEPC […]