Australia may still stand as the world’s third-largest LNG exporter (behind Qatar and the United States) but the foundations of that success are faltering. The September 2025 start-up of the Barossa Project, designed to feed Darwin LNG, and ConocoPhillips’ November drilling success in the Otway Basin offer welcome headlines, but they do little to offset the deeper structural imbalance now shaping Australia’s national gas landscape. Most production remains concentrated in Western Australia and Queensland, far from the south-eastern…
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