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High spot prices are spurring a rise in marketed gas production in the United States to a record 106.6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). According to government forecasts, production…
Free ReadPetróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the Mexican oil and gas company, is currently struggling to emerge from the economic slowdown amid widening losses at a time when several LNG export projects are moving…
US LNG developer Tellurian has ended 2021 with more than $300 million in liquidity and over $360 million in discounted future net cash flows of proved gas reserves in Haynesville Shale.…
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) has made funding available to Canadians and Indigenous groups to participate in the approval process for an LNG export project proposed for Pearse…
• January-February exports at 13.61mmt • Up 0.10mmt (1pct) over November-December period • Shipments up 3.31mmt (32pct) over period year-on-year • Avg. US capacity utilisation at 108pct for report period.
Monday, 07 March 2022
Free ReadPeriod between 01 January 2022 and 28 February 2022, inclusively. Elba Island LNG Elba Island LNG produced flat out and exported a total of six cargoes amounting to 0.42mmt in…
Sky-high European gas demand has caused US LNG exporters to divert cargoes – initially sold to Asian buyers – to northeast Europe. With the start-up of Nord Stream 2 held up…
Fitch Ratings warns of a “highly uncertain” situation in global oil and gas markets as the fast spread of the Omicron variant could result in renewed lockdowns, travel restrictions and…
Free ReadUnphased by record high gas prices and a looming supply shortage, the German regulator BNetzA has halted the approval process of Nord Stream 2 – the controversial Russian interconnector through…
Japan’s largest power plant operator JERA has bought a 25.7% stake in the US liquefaction terminal Freeport LNG together with Global Infrastructure Partners. The deal broadens JERA's gas supply sources…
Siemens Energy has secured a turnkey contract to build GNA II, a 1.7 GW integrated LNG-to-Power plant at Port of Açu, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Customer…
NextDecade, the US developer of the Rio Grande LNG export project along the Brownsville Ship Channel, has confirmed that a final investment decision for the venture would again be delayed,…
Free ReadVegas-based Southwest Gas Holdings is rejecting continued attempts by activist investor Carl Icahn to buy up outstanding stock for $75 per share, calling the move opportunistic and not in the best…
US LNG exports are forecast to be almost 85 percent higher in 2023 than they were in 2020 as nation’s natural gas production increases. “We estimate that US LNG exports…

News Nudges

Chevron decarbonises LNG fleet

Chevron has signed an agreement with Sempcorp Marine Repairs & Upgrades to help reduce the carbon-intensity of its LNG fleet operations. The tankers will be retrofitted with new technologies such as a reliquefication system, hull air lubrication and new gas compressors. These measures expected to reduce cargo boil-off, lower fuel consumption and increase volumes of cargo delivered.


Shell’s profits double

Global energy major Shell said its adjusted earnings in the final three months of 2022 had more than doubled to $39.9 billion on the back of soaring oil and gas prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Shell posted its record earnings just days after US-based Exxon Mobil announced annual profits of $55.7 billion.