Mitsubishi buys land in Louisiana to secure natural gas purchase

Another company buys South Mansfield field in DeSoto Parish

(The Center Square) – Mitsubishi Corp. finalized a $7.5 billion acquisition of Dallasbased Aethon Energy Management’s Haynesville Shale assets this week, as another Japanese conglomerate moved to secure natural gas from northwest Louisiana for its LNG supply chain.

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi is the latest Japanese multinational energy company to buy production in north Louisiana following JERA’s Februa…