発展途上国の未開発天然ガス資源を利用する都市ガス事業導入スキームの一考察

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Natural gas is regarded as an environmentally friendly energy and one of the cleanest forms of fossil fuel energy. Therefore. the development and promotion of natural gas has been very active around the world. Although natural gas reserves are widely distributed all over the world, most of these reserves are located in undeveloped areas, far away from consuming cities. A lot of investment will be necessary such as pipeline construction, liquefaction facilities and storage tanks, to bring these reserves to market. Only large scale gas fields have been tapped so far, because they are relatively easy to commercialize, but small or middle scale gas fields have been left undeveloped, due to the economy of scale difficulties.
This paper discusses the possibility of natural gas utilization among the Asian-region developing countries, which own undeveloped small or middle scale gas fields.