Liquefied natural gas imports in the Middle East have maintained rapid growth

Date: 2017-09-20

       In 2014, LNG imports from the Middle East, including Pakistan, were 5.9 billion cubic meters (4.3 million tons), accounting for less than 2 percent of global imports. But by 2016, that number has reached 28.6 billion cubic meters (20.9 million tons), accounting for 7.9 percent of the world's total. , according to a report in the past three years, the traditional natural gas consumption area of stagnation or decline of demand, but LNG imports have increased by more than 380% in the Middle East, and in the next few years will continue to maintain rapid growth.

       According to the report, as the united Arab emirates second floating storage and regasification device (FSRU) delivered in 2016, the united Arab emirates and the mid - 2018 - a third LNG import terminal in sharjah, united Arab emirates (uae) of LNG imports will continue to keep growing. The uae currently imports natural gas from Qatar through a dolphin energy pipeline for electricity generation. Founded in 1999 by the government of ABU dhabi, dolphin energy has been in charge of the dolphin gas project since 2007. In addition to imported natural gas, the uae is focusing on developing its own gas fields, producing a billion cubic feet of the Al Hosn acid gas field that went into production in 2015.