Therese Robinson

U.S.-based Nebula Energy LLC has invested $300 million for a majority stake in AG&P Terminals & Logistics Pte Ltd., aka AG&P LNG. The investment firm is expanding its business in the liquefied natural gas and carbon capture and storage sectors with its investment in AG&P, with plans to fast-track infrastructure development across emerging markets in…

The Biden administration’s temporary pause on new U.S LNG export permits has for now derailed an anticipated wave of new volumes that was expected to hit the market later this decade, prompting major global gas buyers to explore other options. Asia and Europe have increasingly relied on the United States for a large portion of…

LNG ships are still avoiding transit in the Red Sea via the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Europe or Asia and instead diverting around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope to avoid attacks from Yemen-based Houthis militants. However, global liquefied natural gas buyers have yet to show signs that added shipping costs and delivery delays are impacting…

National Grid plc has boosted long-term LNG supply to the UK from the United States and North Africa with two contracts as it expands imports at its Grain LNG terminal. London-based National Grid launched an auction in September seeking bids for up to 9 million metric tons/year (mmty) in regasification capacity at Grain, Europe’s largest…

Natural gas imports will continue to play an important part in the UK’s energy mix despite a plan recently launched by the government for nuclear power assets to generate 25% of the country’s electricity by 2050.  The proposed targets of having up to 24 GW of nuclear power online by 2050 in the Civil Nuclear…

Norway has awarded 62 offshore drilling licenses from the country’s 2023 auction, expanding explorable acreage in the Arctic and potentially locking in decades of oil and natural gas supply for European allies. The Ministry of Energy awarded offshore production permits on the Norwegian Continental Shelf to 24 oil and gas companies, with Equinor ASA and…

The United States has become the world’s largest LNG exporter, while China again surpassed Japan as the biggest importer last year, according to Kpler.  U.S. LNG exports jumped 6.4% year-over-year in 2023 to 81 million tons (Mt), pushing the country above Australia as the world’s top exporter, Kpler data show. U.S. output in 2023 was…

Poland has broken free of its dependence on Russian energy supplies, increasing both its natural gas pipeline and LNG imports from other suppliers.   Poland had previously relied on Russia as its only gas supplier, but for the first time last year, the country met domestic natural gas demand without Russian imports.  The Swinoujscie liquefied natural…

The Netherlands became the third-largest European LNG importer last year, after France and Spain, as U.S. liquefied natural gas imports flooded Dutch LNG facilities.   With a planned expansion for the Gate LNG import terminal to 20 billion cubic meters (Bcm) annually, the EemsEnergy Terminal in  Eemshaven’s current 8 Bcm/year capacity, and the proposed 7.2 Bcm…