Tuesday, 7 September 2010

Australia Unlikely to Rival Qatar ‘Soon’ on LNG, Macquarie Says - Bloomberg

Australia is unlikely to challenge Qatar as the biggest liquefied natural gas exporter “any time soon” and has too many proposed projects competing for customers, Macquarie Group Ltd. said.

Only a “fraction” of the projects planned in Australia may proceed, analysts Adrian Wood, Gavin Maher and Kirit Hira wrote in a report today. While LNG demand may double to 372 million tons a year by 2020 from current levels, supply is “more than up to the challenge,” their report shows.

“Beyond 2014, it continues to look like a buyer’s market, given the growing number of proposed projects competing for finite demand, suggesting many trains simply will not be needed,” the Sydney-based analysts said.

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