Papua New Guinea, a small Southeast Asian nation better known for its jungles and corruption, became the world’s newest significant energy exporter after an Corp-led facility began shipping natural gas. The cargo delivery from the US$19 billion PNG LNG project is the first from several new liquefied natural gas, or LNG, terminals in Papua New Guinea and Australia. These plants are due to start up over the next three years and will mark a shift in the global LNG trade’s epicenter, away from the Middle East. Work began on the PNG LNG project in 2010, when Asian gas users were looking to ramp up imports of fuels that burn cleaner than coal, and international energy companies were struggling to access resources not owned by foreign governments. The industry’s landscape has changed dramatically since then, with companies in North America now looking to export shale gas while China this week […]