Four Projects to Boost Myanmar Gas Supplies

Myanmar’s ministry of energy has said that the country will produce about 700 billion cubic foot of natural gas a year from four projects by 2013, reports in the local media have suggested.

Two gas fields in Yedagun and Yadana in the Andaman Sea are currently generating over 430 billion cu ft of natural gas each year. Two other projects in Shwe and Zawtika in the Mottoma coast will be producing 250 million cu ft of gas staring next year.

The projects, however, would not be able to meet only 66 per cent the demand for local consumption by 2014.  The demand is expected to reach 800 million cu ft a day by the end of 2013 and early 2014 but supply is project to be only 528 million cu ft a day.