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Former Parsley Energy Inc. CEO Bryan Sheffield has acquired a roughly 7.4% stake in Australian natural gas explorer Tamboran Resources Ltd. Founded in 2009, Tamboran styles itself as “a natural gas company that intends to play a  constructive role in the global energy transition towards a lower carbon future.” The producer develops unconventional natural gas…

In the story, U.S. poised to Become World’s Biggest LNG Exporter, EIA Says, the article misstated that the country will become the world’s largest LNG exporter next year. Instead, the United States will have the largest export capacity. It takes time for new LNG export projects to ramp up to full production. As a result,…

Natural gas futures tumbled lower in early trading Monday, crashing through the $4/MMBtu barrier as weekend forecast trends further reduced already-mild weather-driven demand expectations. The January Nymex contract was down 38.4 cents to $3.748/MMBtu at around 8:50 a.m. ET. Both the American and European modeling agreed on forecast trends over the weekend that would cut…

The natural gas market returned from Thanksgiving seemingly ready to pull the plug on winter.  Amid forecasts insisting on a milder December pattern that would substantially mitigate risks of a winter supply crunch, natural gas forwards dropped sharply during the Nov. 24-Dec. 1 trading period, NGI’s Forward Look data show. Henry Hub fixed price forwards…

The United States will have the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity in 2022 once the sixth train at Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass terminal and Venture Global Inc.’s Calcasieu Pass facility come online in Louisiana next year, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).* At that point, peak U.S. LNG production capacity…

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight Venture Global Global Inc. has filed with FERC for authorization to build a fourth LNG export terminal in Louisiana. The company also filed for a certificate to build an 85-mile natural gas pipeline to feed the 20 million metric tons/year (mmty) CP2 LNG facility, which…

Natural gas prices lost ground in December bidweek trading as markets mulled rising production levels and waning weather-driven demand across much of the Lower 48. NGI’s December Bidweek National Avg. shed 24.0 cents month/month to $5.890/MMBtu. Still, that more than doubled the $2.720/MMBtu average for December 2020, when prices were recovering from the demand destruction…

PAO Novatek said this week that the 19.8 million metric tons/year (mmty) Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia’s Far North signed loan agreements with a consortium of international banks, securing all the facility’s external funding. The banks agreed to provide $10.8 billion for up to 15 years for the $21 billion project that is to…

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow podcast in which NGI’s Patrick Rau, director of Strategy & Research, shares takeaways from the third quarter energy company earnings results and insight into what’s ahead for operators in the Lower 48. In “Shale 4.0 — Natural Gas Earnings Takeaways from 3Q21,”…