LNG

As natural gas traders in the western United States braced for higher demand, prices throughout the rest of the country continued to erode during the five-day Dec. 2-8 trading period, NGI’s Forward Look data show. January fixed price trades for delivery at Henry Hub fell 44.3 cents week/week to $3.835/MMBtu, and most Lower 48 hubs…

Asian liquefied natural gas (LNG) offtakers that have contracts with Malaysia’s state-owned Petroliam Nasional Berhad, aka Petronas, are looking to cover peak winter demand after cargoes were canceled and deferred from the Bintulu LNG complex in Sarawak.   With a colder-than-normal winter predicted for Asia, plus recent unplanned outages at  Australia’s Gorgon LNG and the Prelude…

Cheniere Energy Inc. has requested more time from FERC to build and bring online its planned expansion at the Corpus Christi liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in South Texas, citing delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.  Cheniere, one of the largest gas buyers in the country and the nation’s largest LNG exporter, said it needs…

Japan’s largest power producer, Jera Co. Inc., said it would take a 12.5% interest in the Barossa natural gas project offshore Australia’s Northern Territory as it continues to secure additional liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies. Santos Ltd. sanctioned the $3.6 billion project earlier this year to develop the Barossa field to supply the Darwin LNG…

Enbridge Inc. has set a 2022 budget of C$1.1 billion ($880 million) to expand “newly sanctioned growth projects” for natural gas, oil and power generation operations in Canada, the United States and in Europe, President Al Monaco said Tuesday. During the annual investor day, Monaco and the management team detailed initiatives through 2024 to expand…

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight  Cheniere Energy Inc. has loaded its first cargo from the 5 million metric tons/year (mmty) Train 6 expansion at the Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana. Feed gas was introduced in September. The company expects commissioning to be completed in 1Q2022.  Qatar Energy (QE) said Wednesday…

Natural gas futures managed a rebound from the prior day’s massive sell-off, even as the persistently warm December outlook trimmed gains from early in the session. After touching a $3.829/MMBtu intraday high, the January Nymex gas futures contract settled Tuesday at $3.708, up 5.1 cents on the day. February climbed 4.9 cents to $3.674. Spot…

EQT Corp. on Tuesday defended U.S. natural gas producers and argued for boosting exports in a lengthy rebuttal to claims last month by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that “corporate greed and profiteering” are to blame for the sharp rise in energy prices this year. CEO Toby Rice sent a nine-page response to Warren’s Nov. 23…

It won’t be death by a thousand cuts for natural gas. It’ll be far less than that after an increasingly bearish December weather outlook slashed another hefty chunk off natural gas prices to start the week, leaving prompt-month prices down about $1.20 since last Monday (Nov. 29). With production recovering from recent lows and sitting…