ABU DHABI - Gas Exports, Imports From Qatar & Supply To Dubai.

APS Review Gas Market Trends, January, 2005

Abu Dhabi is to become a major player in a regional gas market which is expected to grow rapidly as from this decade. Itself being a big exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and gas liquids, it will import gas from Qatar to supply Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Oman and Pakistan through a marine pipeline.

Having more than 190 TCF of proven recoverable gas reserves, Abu Dhabi is selling up to 6m t/y of LNG, mainly to Japan, with quantities shipped to the West on short-term basis. But most of its reserves are sour gas in offshore fields which are expensive to develop, with a major part also being associated gas dependent on oil production. Local demand for gas is rising rapidly and supply of Qatari gas would avert a shortage by 2007.

The LNG Business: Abu Dhabi...

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