Elixir Energy, the Australian exploration and production company with coal-seam gas interests in the Gobi Basin of Mongolia, is also making progress with asset development in the Australian state of Queensland where it is hoping to discover sufficient CSG for liquefaction and export.
Gazprom said it had begun building a small-scale liquefied natural gas facility using coal-seam gas in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin in the country’s Kemerovo region of southwest Siberia, known as the Kuzbass, and a coal-mining area where in the time of Stalin and even later mine workers could become heroes of the Soviet Union.
Australia, the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas to nations such as China and Japan, says it is faced with unique challenges in delivering natural gas to Australians as the domestic network is long in kilometre terms while it is delivering to a domestic gas market comparable in volume to that of Switzerland.