LNG production capacity and LNG trade have rapidly grown over the past decade. ExxonMobil with its commercial and technology partnerships has built and developed more than 40% of this new global LNG supply, over that same decade. But ExxonMobil has been a part of a long history in LNG production dating back to the 1970s, beginning with the Marsa el Brega LNG Plant in Libya. The legacy continues with the planned 2014 start-up of the two-train, 6.9 MTA Papua New Guinea LNG Project. The global landscape of natural gas continues to evolve. Robust demand growth is forecast, whereby global consumption could increase by more than 60% by 2030, driven by growth in Asia-Pacific. On the supply side, unconventional gas (primarily in North America) and large gas finds off East Africa and in the eastern Mediterranean, and continued exploration success in Australia, are enabling more LNG volumes for export into the demand regions. As such, the need for LNG capacity growth to meet the forecast supply-demand balance is considerable, especially relative to the pace of capacity additions in the past. The challenges of cost of supply for these LNG projects will continue to drive technology enhancements across the entirety of the project. Cost of supply will also act as a control mechanism on the pace of development in regions with high labor costs, regulatory constraints, and socio-political obstacles for resource development. The key concept that underpins ExxonMobil's successful growth in LNG is the importance of the full integrated value chain on improving delivery economics and cost of supply. The partnerships that developed the large trains (7.8 mtpa) in Qatar delivered this economy of scale across the entire value chain, from reservoir through liquefaction, shipping, and regasification. In addition to the deployment of technologies across the value chain in these recent projects, ExxonMobil has also developed various technology enhancements in its internal research programs. For instance, ExxonMobil's Enhanced Mixed Refrigerant~(TM) (EMR~(TM)) process is based on a dual mixed refrigerant cycle that offers the potential of scalability and expandability required to meet the needs of new capital projects. This process has the flexibility to accommodate a wide range of feed compositions and product specifications. Cost benefits are achieved via EMR~(TM), not necessarily through economy of scale, but by a strategy of fostering broader competition in equipment supply. Recent ExxonMobil research has identified novel, non-flammable or low flammability refrigerants for use in mixed refrigerant and cascade liquefaction processes to reduce the cost and footprint of baseload plants (both floating and onshore).
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机译：液化天然气生产能力和液化天然气贸易在过去十年中迅速发展。埃克森美孚及其商业和技术伙伴关系已建立并开发出该新全球液化天然气供应的40％以上，同而代的十年。但埃克森美孚一直是LNG生产中历史悠久的历史，其追溯到20世纪70年代，从利比亚的Marsa El Brega LNG工厂开始。遗产继续举办2014年的2014年初创公司，6.9 MTA巴布亚新几内亚LNG项目。天然气的全球景观继续发展。预测强大的需求增长，由此，全球消费量可能在2030年增加了60％以上，受到亚太地区的增长。在供应方面，非传统的气体（主要是北美）和大型天然气在东非和东地中海发现，并在澳大利亚继续探索成功，使得更多的LNG卷出口进入需求地区。因此，对液化天然气能力增长的需求适当，尤其是过去的产能增加的速度。这些LNG项目的供应费用的挑战将继续在整个项目中推动技术改进。供应费用也将作为对具有高劳动力成本，监管限制和资源开发的社会政治障碍的地区发展速度的控制机制。埃克森美孚在LNG成功增长的关键概念是完整的综合价值链对提高送货经济性和供应费用的重要性。开发卡塔尔大型火车（7.8 MTPA）的伙伴关系在整个价值链中通过液化，运输和再溶液从水库提供了这种规模经济。除了在这些最近的项目中部署技术的技术外，埃克森美孚还在其内部研究计划中开发了各种技术增强功能。例如，埃克森美孚增强的混合制冷剂〜（EMR〜（TM）（EMR〜（TM））的过程基于双混合制冷剂循环，提供可扩展性和满足新资本项目需求所需的可扩展性的潜力。该过程具有适应各种饲料组合物和产品规格的灵活性。通过EMR〜（TM）实现成本效益，不一定通过规模经济，而是通过培养更广泛的设备供应竞争的战略。最近的埃克森美孚研究已经确定了用于混合制冷剂和级联液化过程的新型，不易燃或低可燃性制冷剂，以降低基础植物（浮动和陆上）的成本和足迹。
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