Capacity

Demand is surging for natural gas pipeline and storage capacity in North America, and as a purveyor of both, that’s good news for Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), CEO Kim Dang said Thursday. Dang, a KMI veteran who took over the top job this year, said there are “a lot of fantastic tailwinds” for the company…

Demand is surging for natural gas pipeline and storage capacity in North America, and as a purveyor of both, that’s good news for Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), CEO Kim Dang said Thursday. Dang, a KMI veteran who took over the top job this year, said there are “a lot of fantastic tailwinds” for the company…

Germany wants to secure the delivery of future LNG supply contracts for its floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) with a contractual delivery obligation to guarantee security of supply for at least 50% of the capacity offered in a series of auctions starting next month. Many liquified natural gas supply contracts do not have a…

The U.S. natural gas industry faces multiple challenges, but depleting resources do not yet appear to be one of them, according to the Potential Gas Committee’s (PGC) latest assessment of the country’s gas endowment. The PGC, composed of about 80 volunteer geoscientists and engineers, has been publishing a year-end report on domestic gas reserves and…

Efforts to electrify and decarbonize the U.S. economy bode well for the natural gas infrastructure business, according to Williams Companies Inc. CEO Alan Armstrong. “The fundamentals, right now, are better than they have ever been for gas,” Armstrong said during the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York.  He cited that since 2014, government forecasts…

The Australian LNG industry has drawn a great deal of attention in the last year, which is no small achievement when considering the war in Ukraine and the anxiety currently surrounding the Chinese economy. 

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. Recently, officials at CFEnergía, the trading arm of Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), announced plans to create a secondary market for natural…

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. Four years have passed since the inauguration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose speeches and value judgments permeate all segments of…

Growing demand from natural gas producers in the Haynesville Shale is driving a suite of gathering and processing (G&P) expansions on Clearfork Midstream LLC’s Holly System in North Louisiana. The expansions include constructing a 24-inch diameter pipeline to the east side of the Red River in northeast Red River Parish, as well as a 16-inch…