SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA PUSHES FORWARD ON LNG PRODUCTION
February 1st, 2019
IN a world increasingly hungry for natural gas, recent foreign investment in liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects has raised the likelihood that the substantial gas reserves of some sub-Saharan African nations will make it into global markets in the decade ahead.
In its scenario based on the likelihood of growing demand and resulting additional investment, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) in its World Energy Outlook 2017 saw net exports of natural gas from sub-Saharan Africa rising from 29 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2016 to 48 bcm in 2025 and ...
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