“The cost of new production, for instance in Australia, does require a higher sales price to realise the very real technical challenges in-country and in transportation,” Haywood, the British supermajor’s Global Gas chief operating officer, told the 20th World Petroleum Congress.



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Currently the largest new global gas projects are Australian liquefied natural gas ones, some of which will use coal seam gas (coal bed methane) as feedstock.

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