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Australian gas rush set to overhaul Qatar's lead

ChannelNewsAsia -- SYDNEY: Australia is set to become the world's biggest liquefied natural gas producer, with analysts predicting it will overtake Qatar by 2020 as it unlocks reserves that could last more than a century.

Seven of the world's 10 major LNG projects are under construction Down Under, with A$176 billion (US$183 billion) of private Australian and foreign investment in gas projects since 2007.

"The projects already under development will take us ahead of Qatar. It's just a case of when that happens," Wood Mackenzie analyst Chris Graham told AFP.

Analysts expect Australia to pip the small Gulf emirate, which holds the world's third-largest gas reserves and last year saw LNG production capacity rise to 77 million tonnes per annum (mtpa), by 2020.

But the government is hoping it reaches

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Submitted Jul 22, 2012 By: aservant

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Gascapade Champion Author Fort Worth Posts:3,022 Points:482,680 Joined:Mar 2009	Message Posted: Jul 22, 2012 8:25:44 AM Ignore Gascapade Report Abuse Good for the increasing supplies to the market...hopefully the nat gas market won't become as corrupt, colluded, and price manipulated.....
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