Published at: www.theaustralian.news.com.au
August 1, 2007
It has been reported that Santos in Australia propose to develop a new 3 to 4 Mtpa LNG export facility using coal-bed methane (CBM). Several countries are actively utilising such CBM via pipeline supplies to augment supplies of conventional gas and the CBM industry is growing quite rapidly. However, CBM projects have their own peculiarities and this Santos project is the first case known to the author of a CBM gas supply being proposed to link directly to an LNG export plant.