ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 19 (Reuters) - Chief Executivewith Rosneft, the world's top listed oil company byoutput, Igor Sechin, said on Friday that the acquisition of BGGroup by Royal Dutch Shell showed that Britain's liquefiednatural gas (LNG) market was strong.
Shell plans to buy its British rival BG for $70 billion. BGhas some of the world's most ambitious projects in LNG, wheredemand is growing as consumers turn away from more pollutingfuels such as coal.
Rosneft plans to build its own LNG plant in Russia inpartnership with U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Denis Pinchuk, Writing byKatya Golubkova, Editing Gabriela Baczynska)