Exports

Williams on Wednesday hit the green light for the Louisiana Energy Gateway (LEG), a 1.8 Bcf/d natural gas system designed to move Haynesville Shale supply to industrial markets and for export overseas. The LEG system, set for service by late 2024, would deliver Haynesville gas to industrial corridors and to liquefied natural gas (LNG) export…

Cold weather, coal-fired power outages and a lack of natural gas infrastructure to connect to regional markets has left Australia questioning the value of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. “Much like recent energy crises elsewhere in the world, the situation in Australia is an unfortunate confluence of massive coal capacity outages, combined with a colder-than-normal…

Following one of the biggest plunges in the history of natural gas trading, futures rebounded on Wednesday as traders digested the impact of a major export outage against a broader backdrop of robust global demand. At A Glance: Traders focus on robust cooling demand Europe’s thirst for U.S. LNG holds strong Cash prices rebound as…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has put forth a 10-point policy plan it wants the Biden administration to adopt to promote U.S. oil and natural gas production – and ease the global energy crisis. “As energy costs and geopolitical instability around the world continue to rise, API is calling on policymakers to confront the global…

An explosion at the Freeport liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal left market participants contemplating weeks of potential demand destruction and caused a price shockwave that reverberated through the natural gas forwards market during the June 2-8 trading week. For the Lower 48 as a whole, fixed price moves were mixed in terms of the…

Natural gas futures on Wednesday soared past $9.000/MMBtu for the first time since 2008 amid worries that fragile supplies may prove inadequate to meet summer cooling demand and robust calls for U.S. exports. At A Glance: Futures fly ahead of June’s expiry LNG export demand intensifies Spring production struggles fester Traders through most of the…

Escalating supply concerns ahead of the summer – forecast to be hotter than usual – appear to be driving huge increases for June baseload natural gas prices, according to NGI’s Bidweek Alert (BWA). After late-season blasts of wintry air hampered production in April, producers are struggling to grow output beyond the recent low to mid-90…

Natural gas futures see-sawed in a narrow range of gains and losses through much of trading Wednesday, but the prompt month ultimately climbed for a third consecutive day as demand looked to outstrip supply. At A Glance: Maintenance further curbs output LNG volumes muster momentum Hot weather drives steady demand The June Nymex gas futures…

Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corp. reported steady growth in the first quarter, especially from its Permian Basin assets. However, the company is holding firm to its “value over volume” approach, choosing to maintain its production and capital investment levels. Despite heightened global oil and gas prices because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and calls…