Australian High Commissioner in Dhaka Gregory A Wilcock Monday expressed his country’s keen interest to provide LNG related support along with training, Bangladesh is going to set up LNG terminal, state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid said.
“Australia is interested to provide training to Bangladeshi on LNG related issue to make them LNG efficient,” he said after emerging a meeting with the envoy at his ministry office Monday.
The state minister said the Australian government wants to export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and set up LNG terminal in Bangladesh.
During the meeting, Wilcock cordially invited the state minister and government officials to join the 18th International Conference & Exhibition on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). The conference and exhibition would be held on 11-15 April 2016, Perth, Western Australia.
According to the LNG conference, the Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, will open LNG 18 in Perth in April this year – the biggest LNG conference and exhibition ever held in Australia and the world’s largest event on the 2016 global LNG calendar.
He will join Colin Barnett, Western Australian Premier, Josh Frydenberg, Federal Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, and an outstanding line-up of highly respected international LNG experts as plenary and concurrent speakers at LNG 18.
Frydenberg – who will be attending the LNG 18 conference in Perth in April – said: “The global demand for gas will increase by 50 per cent between now and 2040 and as we are soon to be the largest exporter of LNG in the world, this makes us the principal beneficiary.”
“In the years ahead to 2040, the LNG projects in Western Australia alone – Wheatstone, Pluto, Gorgon and North West Shelf – are expected to contribute a further AU$160 billion in taxes and royalties,” he said.
Among others, secretary in charge of energy and mineral resources division of the ministry Nazimuddin Chowdhury and Nicola Watkinson, senior trade and investment commissioner (South Asia) of Australian Trade Commission were present on the occasion.