Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Santos Proposes Building $6.1 Billion LNG Plant to Serve Export Markets

(Bloomberg) -- Santos Ltd., Australia's third-
biggest oil and gas producer, proposes to build a liquefied
natural gas plant in Queensland state supplied by coal seam gas
to take advantage of higher export prices for the fuel.

The proposed Gladstone project will have a capacity of 3-4
million metric tons a year of LNG and may cost as much as A$7
billion ($6.1 billion), Adelaide-based Santos said today in a
statement to the Australian Stock Exchange. A final decision may be
made by the end of 2009 to allow deliveries to start in early 2014.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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