Gulf states turn to plentiful LNG
A region rich in gas is yet to figure out how to make the most of it
There is no shortage of gas in and around the Gulf. But politics and the attractions of flexible supply from global liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets mean little of the world’s largest gas reserve, located under Qatar and Iran, will be exported to meet the growing needs of Gulf power stations in the near term. Intra-regional gas trade in the Gulf took off in 2007, when the Dolphin Energy subsea pipeline – majority owned by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development – started transporting gas from Qatar’s North field to Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from where it is piped across the UAE and Oman.The 364 km subsea pipeline has a design capacity of 3.2 billion cubic feet a day (cf/d) of g
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