LNG

Several Australian exploration and production companies have signalled an imminent East Coast natural gas supply crunch while the approach of the Southern Hemisphere winter in June has already brought heavy rains and disrupted gas operations amid warnings that there was not enough new feed-gas developments for the three LNG export plants in Queensland.

Australia’s largest natural gas infrastructure company, APA Group, has signed a preliminary agreement to identify a pipeline route to connect the Galilee Basin in Queensland to Australia’s East Coast domestic gas market and to LNG export plants.