Opinion

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…

The last year has been a chaotic one for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade, and it could be a preview of what’s to come in the years ahead as the super-chilled fuel is further commoditized, according to Flex LNG Ltd. CEO Oystein Kalleklev.  Flex owns a fleet of 13 LNG carriers. Like others in…

Renewable energy is likely to generate more marine fuels in the future, and natural gas will  factor heavily into the mix, according to SEA-LNG COO Stephen Cadden. Cadden’s organization advocates for the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel. SEA-LNG promotes the economic and environmental benefits of LNG. The organization was founded…

Vortexa Ltd.’s Felix Booth, head of liquefied natural gas (LNG), doesn’t expect the global market to loosen anytime soon as supplies remain scarce and demand rebounds from lows of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Based in Singapore, Booth recently joined energy analytics firm Vortexa, which is aiming to cast a wider net in the evolving LNG business.…

Baltic Exchange CEO Mark Jackson believes the nearly 300-year-old organization “sells trust” to the maritime industry, something that has factored heavily into its entry into the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market.  Founded in 1744, the Baltic had its beginnings in the coffee houses of London where merchants and shipowners met. It provided rules for backroom…

Tim Mendelssohn, managing director and co-founder of Spark Commodities, believes the liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade needs more options to manage risk as the market continues to evolve and more players buy and sell the super-chilled fuel.  He launched Spark in early 2019 along with Charles Vallantin Dulac with the backing of commodity data and…

Editor’s Note: The following segment is one in a series by NGI’s LNG Insight focused on exploring how the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market works. The conversations in this series will also analyze news and the issues that matter most to the industry in North America and beyond. Yury Sentyurin is the secretary general…

Editor’s Note: The following segment is one in a series by NGI’s LNG Insight focused on exploring how the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market works. The conversations in this series will also analyze news and the issues that matter most to the industry in North America and beyond. Pilot LNG LLC CEO Jonathan Cook…

Editor’s Note: The following segment is one in a series by NGI’s LNG Insight focused on exploring how the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market works. The conversations in this series will also analyze news and the issues that matter most to the industry in North America and beyond. Melissa Lindsay is the founder of…