Contents
FOREWORD
1.1 Investment essential for a truly global gas market
Fatih Birol, chief economist, International Energy Agency
1.2 Sellers’ market here to stay
Alex Forbes, Petroleum Economist
EXPORTERS
2.1 Russia joins the LNG industry as Sakhalin II starts up
Igor Ignatiev, executive director/corporate affairs, Sakhalin Energy
2.2 North America’s reversal of fortune
Thom Dawson, vice-president, Kitimat LNG
2.3 Brunei LNG evolves and is ready for more business
Adzlan Hassan, commercial manager, Brunei LNG
2.4 Australia’s third export facility close to commissioning
Yvonne Ball, communications adviser, Woodside
2.5 CSG to LNG: a new industry, a new gas source for the world
David Maxwell, senior vice-president growth, QGC
2.6 Plenty more from Africa
Martin Quinlan, Petroleum Economist
2.7 Yemen LNG: preserving livelihoods and the environment
By Karim Abuhamad, deputy general manager, Yemen LNG
IMPORTERS
3.1 US projects face a reality check
Damien Gaul and Kobi Platt, office of oil and gas, Energy Information Administration
3.2 Brazil enters the market in record time
Cláudia Valéria Carreiro de Sousa, general manager of gas supply, and Márcio Bastos Demori, manager of LNG commercialisation, Petrobras
3.3 Argentina’s fast-track solution
Josu Murguialday, operations and new projects manager, maritime transportation division, and Juan Pablo Parodi, LNG commercial services manager, Repsol
3.4 A strategic project for Chile
Antonio Bacigalupo, chief executive, GNL Quintero
3.5 Zeebrugge keeps the pace up
Pascal De Buck, commercial director, Fluxys
3.6 Antifer LNG: opening France to new shippers
Hubert Fournier, president, Yves Bramoullé, project manager and Antoine Garcier, marketing manager, Gaz de Normandie
3.7 Southeast Europe: a growing market
Michael Thomadakis, vice-president, Regulatory Authority for Energy, Greece
3.8 Shannon LNG: location is crucial
Nagar Matsukawa, vice-president LNG supply, Hess LNG
3.9 Taiwan boosts capacity
Lee Huang-Chang, manager, engineering department, natural gas business, CPC, Taiwan
3.10 The Middle East: a new LNG hub
John Mills, executive vice-president, Shell Gas & Power for the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia
MANAGING THE INDUSTRY
4.1 Taking LNG offshore
Raphaël Tilot, vice-president, business development, and Max Nussbaum, project director asset management, LNG division, global gas and LNG, GDF Suez
4.2 Centre of excellence for LNG safety
Extracted from an article in BP’s Outlook publication
4.3 Rising costs threaten project and shipping economics
Navin Thakur, LNG shipping analyst, LNGOneWorld.com
4.5 Floating LNG becomes a reality
Trym Tveitnes, Egil Rokstad and Anne Kristine Lund, Flex LNG
4.6 LNG FPSOs – a financing frontier
Stephen Craen, managing director and head of energy project finance, and Katan Hirachand, director, energy project finance, London, Société Générale
4.7 LNG markets – the only constant is change
Neil Donoghue, partner and Paul Davis, partner, Baker & McKenzie
STATISTICS AND LNG MAP
Natural gas and LNG statistics
Map of future LNG importers and exporters