Gas supply fears overplayed, says Envestra boss Ian Little FEARS of a looming gas supply crisis in NSW are overplayed and east coast business and retail customers will simply need to get used to paying higher, export-parity prices, according to the chief executive of one of the nation's biggest gas distribution companies. Envestra chief executive Ian Little said oil and gas multinationals BHP Billiton and Exxon had ample gas reserves in Bass Strait that would ensure NSW did not suffer from a supply crisis because of limitations that have been put on new coal-seam gas developments in the state and competition for supply from $70 billion of liquefied natural gas plants in Queensland.