Depends upon production costs... it may have enormous potential for the future, but pursuing near-term production would depend upon current energy markets and prices compared to costs of production. Natural gas prices are pretty low right now, so it may be difficult to make this profitable.
Natural gas costs a lot more in China & any other place, which imports LNG. It costs a lot to liquefy the gas — more than the raw feed stock costs now. Then there’s the shipping costs.
Unless natural gas is being transported by ship (or is being used to fuel a ship); it doesn’t need to be liquefied. Compressed natural gas can be shipped economically by pipeline.
OTOH, depending on how fast this technology develops, The N. American (and Russian) natural gas industries could suffer losses, if supply gluts ensue.
Fair dinkum, and why all my buddies are back home from the Bakken.
I was a week away from buying my friend a welding truck to send his unemployed ass out there. I bought the truck, sat on it for a week, and poof, the market died. Need anything welded? Anyhoo, it’s ready to go next boom cycle.