A growing coalition of opponents known as the Lock the Gate Alliance is threatening to disrupt plans to export LNG from Gladstone. (Lock the Gate Alliance)
A coalition of farmers and environmental activists opposed to coal-bed methane (CBM) mining is threatening to dent the bullish outlook for Australian east coast LNG exports, just as competition for global customers is intensifying.
The coalition, known as the Lock the Gate Alliance, is attempting to disrupt plans by international and Australian oil and gas companies to use CBM from the Surat and Bowen basins in Queensland as feedstock for three big LNG export projects under development in the industrial port city of Gladstone.
The three projects, Queensland Curtis LNG, Gladstone LNG and Australia Pacific LNG, are led respectively by BG Group, Santos, and Origin Energy/ConocoPhillips. Other investors are Total, Malaysia’s Petronas, Korea Gas Corp. and China’s Sinopec, while customers include China National Offshore Oil Corp., Tokyo Gas, Kansai Electric and Singapore buyers.
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