TOKYO : Japan's top utility JERA sees no impact from new U.S. sanctions on Gazprombank on its procurement of liquefied natural gas from Russia's Sakhalin-2 project, as it does not use the lender for payment settlements, its president said. The U.S. imposed new sanctions on Russia's Gazprombank last week as part of a wider push to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, barring it from any new energy-related transactions that touch the U.S. financial system, among other restrictions. "The U.S.