Kuwait Outlines Huge LNG Import Plans

摘要

Still struggling to get upstream gas projects off the ground, Kuwait claims it will have the capacity to import a hefty 23 million tons per year of LNG by the end of the decade - or more than seven times the volume imported across the entire Mideast Gulf last year. Officials say the plan makes financial and environmental sense, but it is also being driven by the country's fractious politics; Unlike Kuwait's controversial upstream oil and gas developments, LNG imports do not hinge on winning parhamen-tary approval for significant foreign company involvement.