The project will include technologies to minimise greenhouse gas emissions and the facilities will be designed for zero flaring, with the associated gas entirely reinjected into the reservoirs.
Malaysia ranked as the world’s fifth-largest LNG exporter last year but maintaining this position will require it to tap vast but costly and technically challenging sour gas fields in the South China Sea. [Gas in Transition, Volume 3, Issue 7]
Pakistan’s June tender for LNG imports received no bids, suggesting the country’s already parlous gas supply position could worsen in the near term. However, longer term, the country is looking to Central Asia, both to meet its own gas needs and potentially enter the LNG market as an exporter. [Gas in Transition, Volume 3, Issue 7]