The company's first liquefied natural gas deliveries to customers in Japan and Mexico are due to start by the end of 2007. Year-round oil exports to Asia from a terminal in the south of the island are also set to begin the same year.
By that time, an estimated $12 billion is due to have been spent since work began in 2002 on the second phase of the development, which boasts in-place reserves of 24 trillion cubic feet of gas and 4.6
