First gold, then coal and iron ore. Now, a new bonanza is about to be unleashed from beneath Down Under: Australia's got gas.
Projects being ramped up to tap huge undersea fields off the country's northwest could quadruple Australia's exports of liquefied natural gas in the next few years and turn it into what the country's resources minister has called an "energy superpower."
It will be the next stage of a long boom that has enriched Australia and made it a key supplier of the raw materials underpinning Asia's development _ from the girders in city skyscrapers to the fuel burned to light them.
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