Exports

As U.S. natural gas demand improves, Vine Energy Inc. expects its production in Northwest Louisiana to increasingly be sourced for overseas exports, the company’s CEO said Monday. The Plano, TX-based independent in the spring of 2021 took the company public to secure more investor interest in its 227,000 net acre stronghold in the Haynesville and…

Though widespread summer heat keeps getting kicked down the road, natural gas forward prices strengthened for the trading period ending May 12 as export demand led markets higher. June forwards rose an average 4.0 cents, with similar gains seen through next winter (November 2021-March 2022), according to NGI’s Forward Look. Larger increases were seen in…

Nonprofit MiQ and partner Carbon Limits plan to roll out an emissions certification standard for liquefied natural gas volumes (LNG) as early as this summer, providing a potential boost for suppliers under pressure from customers to lower their environmental impacts. The partners said Thursday they are developing the first independently audited certification standard to calculate…

Natural gas futures advanced for a second straight day on Wednesday as production dipped and all indications pointed to continued strong demand for U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG). The June Nymex contract settled at $2.969/MMBtu, up 1.4 cents day/day. July rose 1.9 cents to $3.018. NGI’s Spot Gas National Avg., however, declined 2.0 cents to…

Argentina is unlikely to develop serious liquified natural gas (LNG) export capacity this decade because of the current political and economic unpredictability, researchers at the country’s Austral University and the UK’s Oxford Institute for Energy Studies said recently. However, while “Argentina might not become a relevant LNG exporter in this decade,” the country “will continue…

U.S. natural gas exports via pipeline and liquefied natural gas (LNG) rose 13.4% year/year in 2020 despite the pandemic, although that was down from the previous annual increase of 29%, according to the latest trade scorecard of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Total 2020 U.S. gas exports to Canada, Mexico and overseas LNG markets…

Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge Inc. said Friday it was seeing an uptick in interest for crude and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the U.S. Gulf Coast amid an anticipated global economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. “Our solid regional footprint and premier North American integrated pipeline networks are ideally positioned to capitalize on these…

Domestic crude oil inventories dropped by 8.0 million bbl last week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Wednesday, bringing stocks below the five-year average for the first time in 2021. It also marked the first decline in three weeks and the biggest drop since January. It materialized as imports plunged in the week ended…

European and Asian natural gas prices continued moving higher last week and again finished strong on Monday as the regions competed for supplies.  Lingering cold in Europe, along with a drop in pipeline imports and a rise in the Japan-Korea Marker (JKM) contract, are supporting prices on the continent, where storage inventories remain about 25%…