澳大利亚政府推出天然气国内预留政策，要求液化天然气出口商从下一财年7月起，将相当于出口量20%的天然气供应国内市场1。这一举措旨在通过降低国内气价，使包括Coogee Chemicals在内的制造业设施重新恢复运营1。
位于墨尔本西部Laverton的Coogee Chemicals甲醇厂因高气成本在2016年停产，导致38个职位被消除1。停产前气成本从每吉焦耳3美元飙升至超过8美元1。该公司首席执行官Grant Lukey表示，"如果能提供低于每吉焦耳10美元的10年期气体，我们将在18个月内重启设施"1。
不过，根据Wood Mackenzie的研究，将批发气价从12美元降至10美元每吉焦耳，对工业成本的影响有限——仅能降低13个大型工业设施的年运营成本9400万美元，利润率仅提升0.4%1。
Australia's government has introduced a domestic gas reservation policy requiring liquefied natural gas exporters to supply the domestic market with volumes equivalent to 20 percent of their export capacity beginning in the next financial year from July.1 The measure aims to reduce domestic gas prices and potentially revive manufacturing operations that have shuttered due to elevated energy costs.
The policy directly targets facilities like Coogee Chemicals' methanol plant in Laverton, which ceased production in 2016 after gas costs surged from approximately 3 dollars per gigajoule to over 8 dollars per gigajoule, resulting in 38 job losses.1 Coogee Chemicals chief executive Grant Lukey stated that if the company could secure gas priced below 10 dollars per gigajoule over a 10-year contract period, the facility would resume operations within 18 months.1 However, research by Wood Mackenzie suggests the price reduction's industrial impact may be limited, finding that lowering wholesale gas prices from 12 to 10 dollars per gigajoule would decrease annual operating costs for 13 major industrial facilities by only 94 million dollars, translating to a profit margin improvement of 0.4 percent.1
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