President Donald Trump on Friday announced a joint venture with Japan for the Alaska LNG Project. If it’s built, the $44 billion project would move gas from the North Slope through an 800-mile pipeline to a liquefaction facility in Nikiski for shipment overseas.

President Donald Trump said that the US and Japan are discussing a pipeline project in Alaska after meeting with the country’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba.

President Donald Trump said Friday that Japan would soon begin importing record amounts of liquefied natural gas from Alaska. But plans for the $44 billion Alaska LNG project — the lone LNG export project in the state — don’t call for exports of gas until 2031. And that’s if the project can be built at all.

Japan will soon begin importing a record amount of new shipments of American liquefied natural gas, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday.

The president wants Japan to import liquefied natural gas from Alaska, which has long sought to build a $44 billion pipeline and export facility.

Ado Machida, a Tokyo-based businessman who served on Trump's transition team after his 2016 election victory, said an offer by Japan to buy more LNG and support the Alaska LNG pipeline would be "probably the easiest" way to win over Trump.

Taiwan has expressed interest in purchasing Alaskan LNG, seeking to diversify its energy imports and potentially reduce its trade surplus with the United States.

President Trump announced an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) “joint venture” between the United States and Japan during a news conference Friday with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

Trump Announces That Japan Will Begin Importing American LNG In ‘Record Numbers’ At a press briefing on Friday, President Donald Trump spoke about Japan importing American LNG. Fuel your success with Forbes.