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Global gas demand ‘delivers opportunities for Australia’

By Dale Granger | 19/11/2019

Andrew McConville

19/11/2019 by Dale Granger

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Global demand for natural gas will increase over the next 20 years, providing a major economic opportunity for Australia, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

APPEA Chief Executive Andrew McConville said the IEA’s World Energy Outlook highlighted the reality that the growing natural gas industry was essential for a cleaner energy future.

“Demand for natural gas is expected to increase 36 per cent by 2040, with gas providing a quarter of global energy demand, the IEA’s Stated Policies Scenario* shows,” Mr McConville said. “Gas will become the second largest source of global energy after oil.”

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports will overtake pipeline gas as the main form of long-distance trading, accounting for more than 57 per cent of inter-regional trade by 2040, the IEA report said.

“These outlooks are very positive for Australia and will see a continued stream of high paying jobs, export dollars and revenue for governments for decades,” Mr McConville said.

“Demand will come from China, India and other countries in Asia. The IEA again reaffirmed that on a lifecycle basis natural gas has much lower associated emissions and switching to natural gas provides an opportunity to lower emissions quickly.”

According to recent Australian Government figures, LNG exports have the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by up to 152 Mt CO2-e, or up to 28 per cent of Australia’s annual emissions.

Mr McConville said the IEA report highlighted an emerging challenge for Australia with the United States expected to become the world’s leading LNG exporter by the mid-2020s.

“There is a great opportunity for Australia but in a competitive global market, we cannot become complacent,” Mr McConville said.

“If Australia is to attract further investment in LNG production, it’s vital to have sensible policy settings–maintaining a stable and competitive tax regime, resisting calls for interventions in gas markets and reducing red tape.”

  • Highlights from this year’s World Energy Outlook include:
  • Oil and gas together will account for more than half of all global energy consumption in 2040.
  • Oil is the largest source of energy share (28 per cent) and gas the second largest (25 per cent) in 2040.
  • Gas is forecast to achieve annual growth of 1.4 per cent.
  • Oil demand is expected to grow at an annual rate of 0.4 per cent to 2040.
  • By 2040, gas demand is forecast to have increased by 36 per cent, accounting for a quarter of global energy demand.
  • A shift in trade flows towards the Asia-Pacific region, with China soon to become the world’s largest gas-importing country, with LNG imports almost twice the next largest importing country, India, and the share of gas in China’s energy mix rises from 7 per cent today to 13 per cent by 2040.
  • Developing Asian economies account for half of the global growth in natural gas demand and almost all of the increase in traded volumes. By 2040, the average gas molecule travels.over 5,000 kilometres to reach consumers in developing Asian markets, nearly twice as far as today.

In 2018, over 45 per cent of the growth in the world’s energy demand was met by natural gas. India, China, Africa and the Middle East are the main centres of gas demand growth to 2040, with demand increasing by 216 per cent, 132 per cent, 100 per cent and 51 per cent respectively.

The 2019 World Energy Outlook can be found here.

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