Philippines LNG projects pass significance test
The island nation's government awards certificates to two more planned import facilities
Philippines power firm First Gen had its application for the proposed Batangas LNG terminal, to be considered an energy project of national significance (EPNS), approved by the country's energy ministry in early August, becoming the second in a matter of weeks to announce the milestone. At the end of July, Australia's Energy World Corporation (EWC) said that its Pagbilao project had also been certified as an EPNS earlier in the month. The logic for developing the projects, which are just two of a slew of projects to import LNG into the Philippines, is two-fold. Firstly, the country's only major source of domestic gas production—Shell's Malampaya field, which supplies 3.2GW of existing gas-fi
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