Reportlinker Adds the Asia Pacific Gas Market Outlook: Country Profiles of Supply, Demand, Regulation and Infrastructure

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The Asia Pacific Gas Market Outlook: Country profiles of supply, demand, regulation and infrastructure

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China is one of the fastest growing economies in the Asia Pacific region. Alongside this economic growth, the demand for energy is increasing continuously. At present, China has natural gas reserves of 80tcf and the majority of its gas fields are located in the western and north-central parts of the country.

South Korea is the world's largest liquiefied natural gas (LNG) buyer after Japan and largely relies on gas imports to meet its domestic demand. The country has relied on LNG imports for its natural gas supply since 1986, but started producing 0.54bcm of natural gas from its Donghae-1 field in 2004. Major LNG exporters to South Korea are Qatar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oman, Australia and Brunei and more recently Sakhalin. South Korea, in September 2008, signed a deal with Russian major gas supplier Gazprom to import 10bcm of natural gas annually starting from 2015. A natural gas pipeline via North Korea is proposed to import the gas, although the option of importing the gas as LNG is also possible if North Korea pulls out of the project. South Korea is also considering a major pipeline from the Kovytinkskye gas fields in Russia via China to supply 0.028 bcm of natural gas.

Key features of this report

Profiles of each country's gas infrastructure including transit and distribution pipelines and their ownership, storage capacities and full colour maps of gas grids.

An understanding of Asia Pacific gas regulation, including local legislation, competitive conditions and market reforms.

Gas supply data in billion cubic metres as well as production, pipeline imports and exports by country and LNG imports.

Gas demand data by consumer type divided into residential, non-residential and power generation in billion cubic metres.

Key findings from this report

1. China distributes natural gas through a 28,000km network of natural gas pipelines that carries 45bcm of natural gas per year. The West-East pipeline is China's largest pipeline. It stretches 3,900km and has a capacity of 12bcm per year. Meanwhile, the 775km Yacheng-Hong Kong pipeline, which serves Hong Kong, is the longest underground pipeline in Asia and the second largest in the world.

2. At present, the Yacheng gas field in the South China Sea is the only source of gas supply to Hong Kong. The main limiting factor to the use of natural gas in Hong Kong's energy mix is the unavailability of indigenous resources and the resultant need for significant investment in importation infrastructure.

3. India's natural gas reserves are currently estimated at 822–907bcm, or about 0.5% of the world total of 181,518bcm.

4. Japan is an important natural gas consumer, and the world's largest importer of natural gas. With minimal reserves of just 21bcm, Japan's indigenous production will remain limited. It imports LNG from Malaysia, Indonesia, Qatar and Australia.

Companies mentioned

Table of Contents

The Asia Pacific Gas Market Outlook

Chapter 1 China 12

Market summary 12

Supply and demand balance 14

Supply overview 15

Demand overview 16

Regulatory structure 18

Infrastructure 19

Pipelines 19

Storage 20

LNG 21

Chapter 2 Hong Kong 24

Market summary 24

Supply and demand balance 25

Supply overview 25

Demand overview 26

Regulatory structure 27

Infrastructure 28

Pipelines 28

LNG 29

Chapter 3 India 32

Market summary 32

Supply and demand balance 33

Supply overview 34

Demand overview 35

Regulatory structure 38

Infrastructure 39

Pipelines 39

LNG 40

Chapter 4 Japan 42

Market summary 42

Supply and demand balance 43

Supply overview 44

Demand overview 46

Regulatory structure 48

Infrastructure 49

Pipelines 49

LNG 49

Chapter 5 New South Wales 52

Market summary 52

Supply and demand balance 53

Supply overview 53

Demand overview 54

Regulatory structure 55

Wholesale market 56

Infrastructure 56

Pipelines 56

Chapter 6 New Zealand 60

Market summary 60

Supply and demand balance 62

Supply overview 62

Demand overview 64

Regulatory structure 66

Wholesale Environment 68

Infrastructure 68

Pipelines 68

Storage 69

LNG 69

Chapter 7 Queensland 72

Market summary 72

Supply and demand balance 73

Supply overview 74

Demand overview 75

Regulatory structure 76

Wholesale environment 77

Infrastructure 77

LNG 78

Chapter 8 Singapore 80

Market summary 80

Supply and demand balance 81

Supply overview 81

Demand overview 83

Regulatory structure 83

Infrastructure 85

Pipelines 85

LNG 86

Chapter 9 South Australia 88

Market summary 88

Supply and demand balance 89

Supply overview 89

Demand overview 90

Regulatory structure 91

Wholesale environment 92

Infrastructure 92

Pipelines 92

Storage 93

LNG 93

Chapter 10 South Korea 96

Market summary 96

Supply and demand balance 98

Supply overview 99

Demand overview 101

Regulatory structure 103

Infrastructure 104

Storage 104

LNG 104

Chapter 11 Tasmania 106

Market summary 106

Supply and demand balance 107

Supply overview 107

Demand overview 108

Regulatory structure 110

Wholesale Environment 111

Infrastructure 111

Pipelines 111

Chapter 12 Victoria 114

Market summary 114

Supply and demand balance 115

Supply overview 115

Demand overview 116

Regulatory structure 117

Wholesale Environment 118

Infrastructure 119

Pipelines 119

Storage 119

LNG 119

Chapter 13 Western Australia 122

Market summary 122

Supply and demand balance 123

Supply overview 123

Demand overview 124

Regulatory structure 125

Wholesale Environment 126

Infrastructure 126

Pipelines 126

LNG 127

Appendix 128

Definitions 128

List of Figures

Figure 1.1: China, gas production (bcm), 1990-2008e 15

Figure 1.2: China, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 17

Figure 1.3: China, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 1990-2020 18

Figure 2.4: Hong Kong, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 1990-2020 27

Figure 3.5: India, gas production (bcm), 1990-2008e 35

Figure 3.6: India, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 37

Figure 3.7: India, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 1990-2020 38

Figure 4.8: Japan gas production (bcm), 1990-2008e 45

Figure 4.9: Japan, import supply sources (%), 2008e 46

Figure 4.10: Japan, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 47

Figure 4.11: Japan, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 1990-2020 48

Figure 5.12: Australia, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 54

Figure 5.13: New South Wales, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 2006-2020 55

Figure 6.14: New Zealand, gas production (bcm), 1990-2008e 63

Figure 6.15: New Zealand, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 65

Figure 6.16: New Zealand, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 1990-2020 66

Figure 7.17: Australia, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 75

Figure 7.18: Queensland, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 2006-2020 76

Figure 8.19: Singapore, import supply sources (%), 2008e 82

Figure 8.20: Singapore, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 1992-2020 83

Figure 9.21: Australia, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 90

Figure 9.22: South Australia, gas historical and forecast demand (%), 2006-2020 91

Figure 10.23: South Korea, gas production (bcm), 2005-2008e 100

Figure 10.24: South Korea, gas import supply sources (%), 2008e 101

Figure 10.25: South Korea, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 102

Figure 10.26: South Korea, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 1990-2020 103

Figure 11.27: Australia, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 109

Figure 11.28: Tasmania, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 2006-2020 110

Figure 12.29: Victoria, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 116

Figure 12.30: Victoria, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 2006-2020 117

Figure 13.31: Australia, gas sectoral demand (%), 2008e 124

Figure 13.32: Western Australian, gas historical and forecast demand (bcm), 2006-2020 125

List of Tables

Table 1.1: China, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e* 14

Table 2.2: Hong Kong, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 25

Table 3.3: India, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 33

Table 3.4: India, LNG terminals 40

Table 4.5: Japan, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e* 43

Table 5.6: Australia, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 53

Table 6.7: New Zealand, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 62

Table 7.8: Australia, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 73

Table 8.9: Singapore, supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 81

Table 9.10: Australia, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 89

Table 10.11: South Korea, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 98

Table 11.12: Australia, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 107

Table 12.13: Australia, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 115

Table 13.14: Australia, gas supply and demand balance (bcm), 2007-08e 123

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