"Our interest remains high in various types of new gas opportunities including tight gas as well as coal seam gas in a number of countries around the world." Last month, Shell became the third major to join Gladstone's rapidly evolving LNG industry, striking a $776 million deal to buy into Arrow Energy's resources, a deal that includes its existing sales contracts, and 10 per cent of its suite of prospects in India, Vietnam and China. Ms Cook said Shell had finalised the deal with Arrow over other players in the domestic CSG market because of its asset appeal and knowledge base. "Arrow had some interesting assets and some good expertise and would be an attractive partner for us internationally," Ms Cook said.