The official Malay name for Sungai Liang is Kampung Sungai Liang ("kampung" is sometimes spelt as "kampong', which literally means 'Sungai Liang Village'.
Geography
Sungai Liang is officially a village, the third- and lowest-level administrative division of Brunei. It is one of the subdivisions of Liang, a mukim or subdistrict in Belait District.
Industry
Sungai Liang Industrial Park, commonly known as SPARK, is a site which has been dedicated by the government to be developed as an industrial area for petrochemical industry, taking advantage of its location as near to the oil and gas industry in the district. It is currently home to a methanol plant which is owned by the Brunei Methanol Company which is a joint-venture between Petroleum Brunei, a state-owned oil and gas company, and two Japanese companies namely Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Itochu. It started its first shipment in 2010 and has since produced 850,000-tonne of methanol annually. There will also be a demo hydrogenation plant in the area; it is currently in construction and expected to be completed by 2019. It is developed by, a Japanese consortium, and is aimed to produce 210 tonnes of liquefied hydrogen, in which the gas will be obtained from the nearby Brunei LNG plant. The product will be exported for the Japanese domestic market; the first batch is expected to be utilised as fuel for 3,000 cars used during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in 2020. A fertilizer plant is also planned to be built in the site; the plant is developed by the German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp and expected to operate by 2021.
Sungai Liang Primary School is a government school which provides general primary education to the resident pupils of Sungai. It also shares grounds with Sungai Liang Religious School, also a government school but provides ugama or Islamic religious primary education which is compulsory for Muslim pupils in the country.
Religion
Place of worship
Kampong Sungai Liang Mosque was inaugurated in 1980 and is the village mosque which enables the Muslim residents for conducting Jumu'ah or Friday prayers as well as other congregational prayers and communal religious activities.
