Economy & Business - July 2009 (ISSN 1741-7430)

July 2009 saw a discreet, almost ignored race between Chile and Brazil to become the first country in South America to receive a shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Both countries are putting the finishing touches to re-gasification plants which allow them to import LNG from anywhere in the world and them pump the gas around their conventional pipeline systems.