据世界天然气网站1月15日报道，全球第三大液化天然气（LNG）买家韩国在2018年获得了创纪录的4400万吨冷冻燃料。

根据海关数据，与去年相比，液化天然气进口增长了17.3％。

卡塔尔是世界上最大的液化天然气生产国，仍然是韩国进口的主要来源，去年从卡塔尔进口的冷冻燃料为1425万吨，增长了23.3％。

澳大利亚是2018年韩国第二大液化天然气供应国，供应量为787万吨，其次是美国的466万吨和阿曼的429万吨。

去年进口到韩国的剩余数量来自马来西亚，印度尼西亚，秘鲁，文莱，尼日利亚，法国，安哥拉，埃及，特立尼达和多巴哥，巴布亚新几内亚，荷兰，新加坡，赤道几内亚，西班牙，挪威，日本，英国和巴西。

李方征 编译自 世界天然气

原文如下：

South Korea’s 2018 LNG imports hit record 44 million tonnes

South Korea, the world’s third buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), received a record 44 million tonnes of the chilled fuel in 2018.

Compared to the previous year, LNG imports rose 17.3 percent, according to the customs data.

Qatar, the world’s top LNG producer, remained the dominant source of South Korean imports with 14.25 million tonnes of the chilled fuel imported from Qatar last year, a rise of 23.3 percent.

Australia was the second-largest LNG supplier to Korea in 2018 with 7.87 million tonnes, followed by the USA with 4.66 million tonnes and Oman that supplied 4.29 million tonnes.

The remaining volumes imported into South Korea last year were sourced from Malaysia, Indonesia, Peru, Brunei, Nigeria, France, Angola, Egypt, Trinidad and Tobago, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, Singapore, Equatorial Guinea, Spain, Norway, Japan, the UK, and Brazil.