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6 of the 10 most expensive energy projects in the world are in Australia
...and every one involves either extracting or shipping fossil fuel gas.
#9 - GLNG - $30 billion
   Location: Australia    Companies: Santos, Petronas, Total, Kogas
This development takes natural gas found in coal seams and ships it 260 miles by pipeline to an island off the northeast city of Gladstone. Â
#7 - Queensland Curtis LNG - $34 billion
   Location: Australia    Companies: BG Group
This is another project to extract natural gas from coal seams in Northeastern Australia. Here, modules for the liquefaction facility arrive from a fabrication yard in Thailand. Over 80 modules will arrive in the next year. Â
#6 - Wheatstone - $35 billion
   Location: Australia    Companies: Chevron, Apache, Tokyo Electic Power Compnay, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company, Royal Dutch Shell, Kyushu Electric Power Company
Another Australian LNG project -- this time northwestern Australia. Chevron owns 64% of this project, and it's one of the company's flagship developments worldwide.
