Current market challenges for the LNG sector will only serve to make the industry stronger, Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull told this year’s huge gas meet in Perth today.

Hotfoot from a day trip to Barrow Island and Karratha in Australia’s northwest where he had visited the country’s newest, although currently non-producing, project Gorgon LNG, Turnbull formally opened the LNG 18 meeting at an evening reception held by local Perth host Woodside Energy.

Acknowledging