LNG

April 26 (LNGJ) - The shale-gas boom in the US, opening the way for LNG exports, is illustrated by the US Energy Information Administration pointing to the fact that net imports of natural gas via pipeline from eastern Canada into the Northeast US this past winter averaged 1.06 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), less than half of the five-year average of 2.14 Bcf/d. Imports from eastern Canada into the US have been decreasing every year since 2007, the EIA stated. This also points to the need for Canada to get moving more urgently on its own LNG export plans, analysts said.