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Article: Abu Dhabi's Gas Exports, Imports From Qatar & Supply To UAE & Oman:.
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- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- January 19, 2009
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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 is importing gas from Qatar to supply Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Oman - plus from 2010 to Fujairah and Pakistan likely to get supplies from 2013 or later - through a marine pipeline which began pumping to the UAE in February 2008.
Having over 200 TCF of proven recoverable gas reserves, Abu Dhabi is selling 6m t/y of LNG, mainly to Japan, with quantities shipped to the West on short-term basis. But most of its reserves are extra-sour gas in onshore and offshore fields which ...