Singapore — Australia's North West Shelf LNG has asked some of its Japanese customers to defer deliveries of a small volume of the LNG cargoes under their contracts, due to upstream issues that could constrain production in the coming months, according to at least five market participants who were affected. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The exact delays have not been finalized and only about one LNG cargo per month would be impacted until April 2022, the market participants, which included power utilities and LNG traders, said. This amounts to fewer than eight LNG cargoes in total, assuming that only deliveries from July onwards are affected, which is a relatively small volume for North West Shelf LNG that exports roughly five regular-sized LNG cargoes every week.