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Houston-headquartered Tellurian is developing the mammoth Driftwood LNG project. President and CEO Octavio Simoes spoke to Petroleum Economist at the Gastech conference in Singapore to provide an update on Driftwood’s progress, the cost of gas production and LNG’s vital role in ensuring current and future energy supplies. Driftwood will comprise five plants, split between four phases: the first phase consists of plants one and two, with plants three, four and five equating to phases two, three and four, respectively. “We are fully committed to a total of 27m t of capacity,” Simoes said, explaining that phase one will be 11mt. “That is what we are focusing on right now, the first 11mt”, he ad
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