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With Sabine Pass Train 3 online and Train 4 poised to begin taking feedgas in the coming days, Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Louisiana liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal could be pulling 3 Bcf/d from the U.S. natural gas market by the second quarter, Barclays Research said in a note Wednesday.

U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2016 fell more than anywhere else in the world, down 3% year/year, driven by a flood of shale natural gas supply and renewable power increasingly displacing coal, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.

The United States and Canada may hold less than one-fifth of the world’s shale resources, but combined they produce nearly all of the shale natural gas and oil, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon, Raymond James & Associates Inc. said Monday.

BP plc has nabbed its second contract this year with China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) to explore, develop and produce shale natural gas in the Sichuan Basin.

Natural gas production from shales will account for 30% of global output by 2040 as shale resources are developed in more countries, particularly Mexico and Algeria, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

BP plc on Thursday secured its first unconventional natural gas exploration contract in China in an agreement with the country’s largest state-owned producer.

The slew of North American liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects currently in the works could face stiff competition from renewables in Asian and European power generation markets, according to a new report from economists with The Brattle Group.

Chevron Corp.’s Australian subsidiaries and its partners have signed a nonbinding heads of agreement (HOA) to deliver up to 0.5 million metric tons/year (mmty) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over a decade from the Gorgon project to China’s ENN LNG Trading Co. Ltd.

U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals “raced ahead” last year as a final investment decision (FID) was made on three projects during the first half, representing 18.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of capacity, according to Wood Mackenzie Ltd.’s principal analyst Alex Munton. But LNG demand in Asia has waned, analysts said, creating uncertainty ahead.