❓ Question regarding the benefits of hosting the International Conference and Exhibition on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG 18) in Perth. The Premier highlights the economic benefits, the importance of WA's LNG industry, and the technical significance of Australia's diverse LNG projects.
AnsweredQoN 230Legislative Assembly
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION ON
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
230. Mr A. KRSTICEVIC to the Premier:
The eyes of the world's oil
and gas industry will focus on Perth next week, when 5 000 people are expected
to take part in the eighteenth International Conference and Exhibition on
Liquefied Natural Gas.
Ms
M.M. Quirk interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I have a blank sheet here: do you want me
to soil it?
Several members interjected.
Mr
A. KRSTICEVIC : My question to the Premier reads —
The eyes of the world's oil
and gas industry will focus on Perth next week when 5 000 people are expected
to take part in the eighteenth International Conference and Exhibition on
Liquefied Natural Gas. Could you please inform the house of the benefit of
having this conference here in Perth?
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
230. Mr A. KRSTICEVIC to the Premier:
The eyes of the world's oil
and gas industry will focus on Perth next week, when 5 000 people are expected
to take part in the eighteenth International Conference and Exhibition on
Liquefied Natural Gas.
Ms
M.M. Quirk interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I have a blank sheet here: do you want me
to soil it?
Several members interjected.
Mr
A. KRSTICEVIC : My question to the Premier reads —
The eyes of the world's oil
and gas industry will focus on Perth next week when 5 000 people are expected
to take part in the eighteenth International Conference and Exhibition on
Liquefied Natural Gas. Could you please inform the house of the benefit of
having this conference here in Perth?
AnswerView source ↗
Certainly, I can. LNG 18, which will
be held in Perth next week, will be the largest ever business conference held
in Western Australia. There will be more than 5 000 participants, including 1 750
formal delegates; that number is rising. Seventy per cent of those people are
from overseas. Among the various delegations and 250 exhibitors will be the
global heads of the world's biggest petroleum companies, including
Shell, Total, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Petronas and so on. It is expected that
the conference will inject about $45 million into the Western Australian
economy, with more than 2 300 nights of accommodation being booked and so on.
It comes at a very important time for the Australian, and particularly the Western
Australian, liquefied natural gas industry. From 2014 to 2018, LNG production
out of Western Australia alone will grow from 20 million tonnes to 48 million
tonnes. Western Australia will then be about equivalent to the world's
number one producer, Qatar. Australia as a whole, with the coal seam projects
on the east coast, will clearly be the world's number one producer.
It is interesting that this is
largely a technical conference as much as an economic one. Australia provides a
little bit of a laboratory for what is happening in LNG. We certainly have
conventional offshore reservoirs and onshore liquefaction plants, like
Wheatstone and Gorgon and so on. We also have coal seam gas projects on the
east coast, and we are about to see the first large-scale floating LNG in
Prelude. Hopefully, the Browse project will go ahead in the future. We also
have the early exploration and development of one of the world's
biggest shale gas deposits in the Canning Basin. There will be a lot of
interest in Australia's potential in LNG. LNG is three-quarters an Asia–Pacific
market, and there is still a very high growth rate there, particularly from the
emerging economies of China and India. It is a very important conference for
the industry in Western Australia.
Ms
M.M. Quirk : You're not the Minister for State Development anymore,
Premier.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : No, but I am the Premier.
I want to congratulate the
Department of State Development.
Several members interjected.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : This conference will have a big tourism impact. The
Department of State Development, with the support of other agencies, did an
excellent job in securing this conference. Perth is the only city in the world
to have hosted the LNG conference twice. That is a reflection on —
Mr
P. Papalia : You didn't even know about it until that one.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : Oh, Sunshine! Oh, goodness! What a dull, dull, person, you
are!
be held in Perth next week, will be the largest ever business conference held
in Western Australia. There will be more than 5 000 participants, including 1 750
formal delegates; that number is rising. Seventy per cent of those people are
from overseas. Among the various delegations and 250 exhibitors will be the
global heads of the world's biggest petroleum companies, including
Shell, Total, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Petronas and so on. It is expected that
the conference will inject about $45 million into the Western Australian
economy, with more than 2 300 nights of accommodation being booked and so on.
It comes at a very important time for the Australian, and particularly the Western
Australian, liquefied natural gas industry. From 2014 to 2018, LNG production
out of Western Australia alone will grow from 20 million tonnes to 48 million
tonnes. Western Australia will then be about equivalent to the world's
number one producer, Qatar. Australia as a whole, with the coal seam projects
on the east coast, will clearly be the world's number one producer.
It is interesting that this is
largely a technical conference as much as an economic one. Australia provides a
little bit of a laboratory for what is happening in LNG. We certainly have
conventional offshore reservoirs and onshore liquefaction plants, like
Wheatstone and Gorgon and so on. We also have coal seam gas projects on the
east coast, and we are about to see the first large-scale floating LNG in
Prelude. Hopefully, the Browse project will go ahead in the future. We also
have the early exploration and development of one of the world's
biggest shale gas deposits in the Canning Basin. There will be a lot of
interest in Australia's potential in LNG. LNG is three-quarters an Asia–Pacific
market, and there is still a very high growth rate there, particularly from the
emerging economies of China and India. It is a very important conference for
the industry in Western Australia.
Ms
M.M. Quirk : You're not the Minister for State Development anymore,
Premier.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : No, but I am the Premier.
I want to congratulate the
Department of State Development.
Several members interjected.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : This conference will have a big tourism impact. The
Department of State Development, with the support of other agencies, did an
excellent job in securing this conference. Perth is the only city in the world
to have hosted the LNG conference twice. That is a reflection on —
Mr
P. Papalia : You didn't even know about it until that one.
Mr
C.J. BARNETT : Oh, Sunshine! Oh, goodness! What a dull, dull, person, you
are!
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