An international campaign group, the Shwe Gas Movement, has been putting pressure on Myanmar and its investors to compensate those displaced by pipeline, gas terminal and port.

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In June 2011, Novatek, Russia's biggest non-state gas company, sent 60, 000 tons of gas condensate from Murmansk to the Chinese port of Ningbo aboard the MV Perseverance on a three-week voyage.

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When the questions erupted - is it remotely practical, can any port be home to liquefied natural gas, oil refineries and nuclear submarines, how many jobs would come to Wales, was he serious?

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"A lot of cars stuck, a lot of roads not plowed, mainly the side roads, " said Chris Bornemann, 32, of Port Jefferson, as he put gas in his car after a rough drive around the Ronkonkoma area.

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An industry consultant in Myanmar told me that while the Chinese port was on the outskirts of Kyaukpyu, Daewoo is running its gas pipeline through a base in the town.

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Milford Haven is a natural deep water port that handles around a fifth of the UK's energy through oil and gas imports.

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Last week I was in Pemba, a sleepy port town in northern Mozambique, which is waking up quickly to the large scale gas development underway in the region.

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This was unpopular anyway, both because of animosity towards America and because a port in Chile, Bolivia's old enemy, would probably be used to export the gas.

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Novatek, for example, is building a new port at Sabetta on the Yamal peninsula to service the LNG trade to Asia, with expectations of first gas in 2016 and exports of 15 million tons a year by 2018.

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