Time’s up? LNG imports destined for Australia next year
After years of warnings, importing gas looks to be the only way left to head off an energy shortfall in Victoria, a move likened to “importing sand to the Sahara”.
One of the world’s biggest LNG exporters is about to import the liquefied form of natural gas.
That is the situation facing Australia, with LNG tankers potentially docking at Port Kembla south of Sydney from June 2026, in time to head off a long-feared winter shortage of gas in the southern states.
