LNG authorizations

The global LNG market continued growing in 2023 and faces a new set of challenges this year as it continues working to meet projected demand growth. Read what NGI analysts learned during 4Q2023 earnings season and how they view trends in the global natural gas market moving forward. Cheniere Energy Inc. (LNG): Statistics from Cheniere…

Natural gas trade associations and LNG project developers could be forced to rely on the courts or Congress for a swift end to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) pause on new export authorizations after the agency closed the door on revisiting its decision. At the end of March, DOE issued two denials of requests…

Tellurian Inc. is looking to join the wave of Gulf Coast LNG developers partnering with exploration and production (E&P) companies on tolling agreements to raise international exposure, executive chairman Martin Houston said Tuesday. In a letter to shareholders, the Houston-based company’s co-founder said Tellurian’s marketing team had spent last week meeting with potential customers and…

While political opposition and market uncertainty continue to mount around the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) pause of LNG export authorizations, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm reassured energy leaders the action was a necessary, but temporary step to better policy making. During a keynote address Monday in Houston during CERAWeek by S&P Global, Granholm rolled…

A final investment decision (FID) for Commonwealth LNG will have to wait until next year, or even later, as Gulf Coast export project developers continue to adapt to the fallout of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) indefinite authorization pause. Commonwealth LNG LLC, currently developing a self-named export facility near Cameron, LA, was previously expected to…

The Biden administration’s pause on LNG export licenses may have opened the door for competing projects in Canada to gain ground after years of lagging behind. Canadian officials this month have been playing up their lower emission bonafides in the wake of their southern neighbor’s pause on licenses, in a bid to push for Canada’s…

One of the U.S. oil and natural gas industry’s largest trade groups is pushing the Department of Energy (DOE) to reverse a pause on new LNG export licenses as the possibility of intervention from Congress slims. The American Petroleum Institute (API) and other groups representing the liquefied natural gas industry have filed a request for…

Shell plc has tempered its expectations for peak LNG demand over the next two decades, but the top natural gas trader still expects the current buildout of export capacity led by the United States to fall short of rising global consumption driven by Asia. In its latest liquefied natural gas market outlook, the London-based integrated…

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow podcast, in which NGI’s Jacob Dick explores the market implications of the Biden administration’s pause of new LNG export authorizations with Rapidan Energy Group’s Alex Munton. After the Jan. 26 announcement that the Department of Energy would be reviewing its policies for…