China’s liquefied natural gas imports are forecast to increase by 21 percent to 32 million tonnes in 2017, with the Chinese aiming to increase the share of natural gas in the energy mix from 5 percent to 10 percent by 2020, with policy efforts directed at the electricity generation and transport sectors.
With an increasingly open economic policy, growing political stability and the lifting of key US sanctions, Myanmar is ripe for investment.
In quick succession, three customers for the Queensland Curtis, Gladstone and Australia Pacific coal-seam-gas to LNG projects each hired Bechtel to design and execute their project on a lump-sum basis.
Few shipping companies have managed to stay afloat in today’s fluctuating oil and gas market, much less generate profits. Through prudent investments and adoption of new technologies, Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) has remained resilient and continued to uphold its industry leading position in the transportation of LNG around the globe.
The construction of the then new Train 5 at the North West Shelf plant in Western Australia was the world’s first base-load Train constructed using a modularised approach.