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Mega project in China's Bohai Sea starts gas delivery

STORY: Mega project in China's Bohai Sea starts gas delivery SHOOTING TIME: March 17-18, 2024 DATELINE: March 19, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:52 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the natural gas processing terminal project in Binzhou, east China's Shandong Province STORYLINE: A natural gas processing terminal project, the largest of its kind constructed by the Bohai Oilfield, China's largest offshore crude oil producer, has officially started supplying gas to surrounding areas, according to the Tianjin branch of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) on Monday. The project in the city of Binzhou, east China's Shandong Province, is an important onshore terminal supporting project for the Bozhong 19-6 Condensate Gas Field, the first gas field with proven reserves of over 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the Bohai Sea. The project is expected to process up to 1.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually. "The gas field will provide a more stable and relia

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Whirlpools at Naruto Strait

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Whirlpools are seen under the Onaruto Bridge, a suspension bridge connecting Kobe with Naruto and Tokushima in the Shikoku region, in the Naruto Strait on April 28, 2010. The strait connecting the Seto Inland Sea and the Pacific Ocean is only 1.3 kilometer wide and seawater flows in and out from the Seto Inland Sea. The height difference between high tide and low tide reaches up to 1.5 meters, creating numerous whirlpools. At this time of the year, the diameter of whirlpools can be over 20 meters.

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Whirlpools at Naruto Strait

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - A pleasure ship is seen sailing near whirlpools in the Naruto Strait between Awaji Island and the Shikoku region, western Japan, on April 28, 2010. The strait connecting the Seto Inland Sea and the Pacific Ocean is only 1.3 kilometers wide and seawater flows in and out from the Seto Inland Sea. The height difference between high tide and low tide reaches up to 1.5 meters, creating numerous whirlpools. At this time of the year, the diameter of whirlpools can be over 20 meters.

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Sohgo Security Services unveils security guard robot

TOKYO, Japan - Sohgo Security Services Co. unveils a cutting-edge security guard robot at a shopping mall in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront district on Nov. 27 ahead of its formal debut there in mid-December. Standing 1.3 meters high and weighing 90 kilograms, the robot -- tentatively named ''Reborg-Q'' -- can go on patrols on behalf of human security guards, detecting fires and issuing alarms, as well as video-taping its surroundings with a camera on top of its head, the company said.

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Matsushita devises world's largest plasma-panel TV

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on Jan. 5 it has developed a 103-inch plasma-panel television set (L), the world's largest, with high-definition TV resolution. The prototype TV has a screen 2.3 meters wide and 1.3 meters high. The TV set on the right is a 50-inch television.

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Toyota releases new Belta subcompact sedan

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. on Nov. 28 released a new subcompact sedan named the Belta, powered either by a 1.0- or 1.3-liter engine, for sale in the domestic market. The car, 4.3 meters long and 1.7 meters wide, is Toyota's smallest sedan and comes in two- and four-wheel-drive models.

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Toyota releases new Belta subcompact sedan

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. on Nov. 28 released a new subcompact sedan named the Belta, powered either by a 1.0- or 1.3-liter engine, for sale in the domestic market. The car, 4.3 meters long and 1.7 meters wide, is Toyota's smallest sedan and comes in two- and four-wheel-drive models.

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Fujitsu units develop human-assisting robots

TOKYO, Japan - A humanoid robot developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Frontech Ltd. pushes a load. Each robot is 1.3 meters tall, weighs 63 kilograms and can move to its destination with the help of eight cameras in its head and a newly developed high-speed three-dimensional image processing system.

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Hospital helper robot planned to make debut next spring

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. said July 10 it plans to introduce next spring a robot that can work in hospitals delivering small materials such as patient files and X-ray films. With the cooperation of the Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital in Shiga Prefecture, the robot is now being tested for practical use. The 120-kilogram robot is 1.3-meters high, 0.6-meter wide and 0.75-meter in depth.

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2 Britons set sail to cross the Pacific in rowboat

CHOSHI, Japan - Tim Welford (L), 33, and Dominic Mee, 30, pose for photographers May 5 before they set sail from the port of Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, for San Francisco in a manually-powered rowboat. The two, both members of the British Royal Marines, aim to arrive in San Francisco in about 120 days with no outside support on the voyage of some 9,200 kilometers. The boat is 7.1 meters long, about 1.9 meters wide and weighs around 1.3 tons fully outfitted.

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Fujitsu units develop human-assisting robots

TOKYO, Japan - A humanoid robot developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Frontech Ltd. pushes a load. Each robot is 1.3 meters tall, weighs 63 kilograms and can move to its destination with the help of eight cameras in its head and a newly developed high-speed three-dimensional image processing system. (Kyodo)

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2 Britons set sail to cross the Pacific in rowboat

CHOSHI, Japan - Tim Welford (L), 33, and Dominic Mee, 30, pose for photographers May 5 before they set sail from the port of Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, for San Francisco in a manually-powered rowboat. The two, both members of the British Royal Marines, aim to arrive in San Francisco in about 120 days with no outside support on the voyage of some 9,200 kilometers. The boat is 7.1 meters long, about 1.9 meters wide and weighs around 1.3 tons fully outfitted.

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Whirlpools at Naruto Strait

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - A pleasure ship is seen sailing near whirlpools in the Naruto Strait between Awaji Island and the Shikoku region, western Japan, on April 28, 2010. The strait connecting the Seto Inland Sea and the Pacific Ocean is only 1.3 kilometers wide and seawater flows in and out from the Seto Inland Sea. The height difference between high tide and low tide reaches up to 1.5 meters, creating numerous whirlpools. At this time of the year, the diameter of whirlpools can be over 20 meters. (Kyodo)

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Whirlpools at Naruto Strait

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Whirlpools are seen under the Onaruto Bridge, a suspension bridge connecting Kobe with Naruto and Tokushima in the Shikoku region, in the Naruto Strait on April 28, 2010. The strait connecting the Seto Inland Sea and the Pacific Ocean is only 1.3 kilometer wide and seawater flows in and out from the Seto Inland Sea. The height difference between high tide and low tide reaches up to 1.5 meters, creating numerous whirlpools. At this time of the year, the diameter of whirlpools can be over 20 meters. (Kyodo)

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Matsushita to release world's largest flat-panel TV

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will release possibly by the year-end a 103-inch plasma display panel TV (photo) whose monitor size will make it the world's largest flat-panel TV. The versatile display, measuring as large as 2.3 meters in width and 1.3 meters in height, is almost comparable in size to a double bed. (Kyodo)

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Matsushita devises world's largest plasma-panel TV

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on Jan. 5 it has developed a 103-inch plasma-panel television set (L), the world's largest, with high-definition TV resolution. The prototype TV has a screen 2.3 meters wide and 1.3 meters high. The TV set on the right is a 50-inch television. (Kyodo)

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Toyota releases new Belta subcompact sedan

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. on Nov. 28 released a new subcompact sedan named the Belta, powered either by a 1.0- or 1.3-liter engine, for sale in the domestic market. The car, 4.3 meters long and 1.7 meters wide, is Toyota's smallest sedan and comes in two- and four-wheel-drive models. (Kyodo)

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Toyota releases new Belta subcompact sedan

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. on Nov. 28 released a new subcompact sedan named the Belta, powered either by a 1.0- or 1.3-liter engine, for sale in the domestic market. The car, 4.3 meters long and 1.7 meters wide, is Toyota's smallest sedan and comes in two- and four-wheel-drive models. (Kyodo)

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Sohgo Security Services unveils security guard robot

TOKYO, Japan - Sohgo Security Services Co. unveils a cutting-edge security guard robot at a shopping mall in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront district on Nov. 27 ahead of its formal debut there in mid-December. Standing 1.3 meters high and weighing 90 kilograms, the robot -- tentatively named ''Reborg-Q'' -- can go on patrols on behalf of human security guards, detecting fires and issuing alarms, as well as video-taping its surroundings with a camera on top of its head, the company said. (Kyodo)

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2-seat compact EV

Fukui Gov. Tatsuji Sugimoto (L) drives a two-seat compact electric vehicle, named e-TOP, in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture on June 8, 2021. The car, 2.5 meters in length and 1.3 meters in width and equipped with a small driving motor developed by a motor maker in the central Japan city, is currently being put through test drives on public roads.

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Nishijin fabric bearing "Galaxy Express 999" image

Photo taken July 13, 2018, shows a Nishijin fabric bearing a woven image of Maetel, a mysterious female character in the popular Japanese cartoon "Galaxy Express 999," at Nishijin Textile Center in Kyoto. The fabric, measuring about 2.6 meters in length and 1.3 m in width, will be displayed at an exhibition there running from July 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese probe makes world's 2nd-longest deep-sea cruise

TOKYO, Japan - The Urashima, a Japanese deep-sea probe, is hoisted out of the sea after achieving an unmanned submerged cruise of 220 kilometers, the second longest in the world after the 262 km achieved by a British probe. The photo was released June 22 by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. The Urashima, measuring 9.7 meters long, 1.3 meters wide and 1.5 meters high, started the cruise at a depth of 800 meters June 8 and covered the 220 kilometers in 43 hours before suspending the cruise due to an approaching typhoon. (Kyodo)

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Hospital helper robot planned to make debut next spring

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. said July 10 it plans to introduce next spring a robot that can work in hospitals delivering small materials such as patient files and X-ray films. With the cooperation of the Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital in Shiga Prefecture, the robot is now being tested for practical use. The 120-kilogram robot is 1.3-meters high, 0.6-meter wide and 0.75-meter in depth.

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DaimlerChrysler launches 'smart Coupe' in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - DaimlerChrysler Japan Co. put on the market Dec. 4 a two-seater car, dubbed the ''smart Coupe,'' which has a 589 cc engine and is priced at 1.3 million yen. Although the new car belongs in the minicar category because of its engine capacity, it is treated as a small passenger car because of its size. It is 2.5 meters long and 1.5 meters wide, larger than a typical minivehicle.