QUEENSLAND'S coal production is expected to more than double in the next eight years.
In the same period Australia is expected to become the world's largest gas exporter.
All of this is putting enormous strain on infrastructure. But a report released by the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics in Canberra yesterday suggested planned infrastructure projects would be able to handle most of the growth.
The exception is in the liquefied national gas industry in which, under the high market share scenario used in the report, Australia's LNG exports could grow to 106 million tonnes by 2020, leaving a shortfall of 25 million tonnes of annual capacity.
The report, which used low, medium and high market share scenarios, found while planned LNG infrastructure capacity exceeded projected export volumes, there would be insufficient time to build the additional capacity by 2020.
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