{"id":293863,"date":"2019-09-26T11:35:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293863"},"modified":"2019-09-26T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:14:44","slug":"lng-investments-hit-record-of-50-bln-in-2019-iea-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lng-investments-hit-record-of-50-bln-in-2019-iea-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"LNG investments hit record of $50 bln in 2019: IEA chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record investments of $50 billion have turned 2019 into a banner year for liquefied natural gas, with Canada and the United States being the main drivers, the chief of the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The industrial sector is Asia\u2019s biggest driver of LNG, with China expected to overtake Japan as the world\u2019s top importer of the fuel in five years, said Fatih Birol, the agency&#8217;s executive director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, 2019 already broke the highest amount of (final investment decisions) for the first time ever, $50 billion,\u201d he told the annual LNG Producer-Consumer conference in Tokyo. \u201cThe biggest growth is coming from China,\u201d Birol added. \u201cIn the next five years, about one-third of global LNG demand will come from China alone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record investments of $50 billion have turned 2019 into a banner year for liquefied natural gas, with Canada and the United States being the main drivers, the chief of the International Energy Agency said on Thursday. The industrial sector is Asia\u2019s biggest driver of LNG, with China expected to overtake Japan as the world\u2019s top importer of the fuel in five years, said Fatih Birol, the agency&#8217;s executive director. \u201cThis year, 2019 already broke the highest amount of (final investment decisions) for the first time ever, $50 billion,\u201d he told the annual LNG Producer-Consumer conference in Tokyo. \u201cThe biggest growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}