Australia is poised to become the world’s largest liquefied natural gas producer, but in typical fashion is wrestling with a largely self-inflicted problem about the supply of domestic gas into the heavily-populated eastern states.
In Western Australia, there is a whirl of activity offshore and onshore, as three mega-LNG projects move into the final construction and commissioning phases.
Wheatstone, Prelude and Ichthys are due on stream this year, and will mark the end of the “Australian LNG boom” — eight mega LNG projects costing more than US$200 billion that began with the Pluto sanction in 2007.