LNG Insight

Native and environmental traits deck a naval arm of custom-built tugboats that the first major Canadian LNG export project will launch on the northern Pacific coast of British Columbia. The HaiSea Marine partnership of Seaspan ULC and the Haisla First Nation tribal host of LNG Canada at Kitimat announced that deliveries have begun of five…

An unplanned outage that started Wednesday at Equinor ASA’s Hammerfest LNG export facility in Norway is expected to last until June 8, according to a notice submitted to Gassco, the country’s transmission system operator.

Germany’s government continues to face criticism from environmental groups for its ambitious LNG import capacity plans and for supporting natural gas at the recent G7 meeting in Japan.  Claims that Germany overestimated its liquified natural gas capacity needs have not been confirmed by the government. Two proposed onshore terminals in Stade and Wilhelmshaven, and the…

QatarEnergy has signed a 1.8 million metric ton/year (mmty), 15-year contract with Bangladesh’s national natural gas company as the marketing push for North Field LNG continues. Under the agreement, QatarEnergy’s liquefied natural gas trading arm could begin delivering cargoes to the Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corp. (Petrobangla) starting in 2026. Supply is to be…

The Ksi Lisims LNG export project, proposed to move 12 million metric tons/year of natural gas to overseas markets from the west coast of British Columbia (BC), can achieve a net-zero carbon goal by 2030, sponsors promised in a letter to provincial authorities. Led by the Nisga’a Nation, the proposed liquefied natural gas project said…

Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Corp. and Japanese power and trading conglomerate Marubeni Corp. are partnering to advance a project that would convert Alberta natural gas into hydrogen and ammonia for exports to Asia. In announcing the partnership, the companies set a target of late 2025 to decide whether to build a conversion plant in the Alberta…

Weak prices for spot LNG and European natural gas, coupled with high levels of floating inventory, have triggered discussion about something that was unthinkable only a year ago – the prospect of U.S. cargo cancellations.

Equinor ASA has halted LNG production at its Hammerfest export terminal in Norway to repair a leak only days after work was completed to resolve a separate issue that kept the plant offline for most of May. Emergency responders were dispatched to the 4.3 million metric tons/year facility early Friday, when a gas leak was…

U.S. LNG exports would have an inherent but limited impact on domestic natural gas prices through the next several decades, possibly driving the Henry Hub to a range between $3.30 and $4.30/MMBtu by 2050, according to a recent U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysis. Using several scenarios and the EIA’s latest Annual Energy Outlook (AEO)…