LNG in brief
Report summary
Table of contents
- LNG landing pages
- LNG trackers
- Pipeline attacks in Nigeria highlight increased security risks in 2021
-
Croatia become Europe’s latest LNG importer with the arrival of first LNG carrier
- Latest insights and informs
- The LNG Big Chill Podcast
- Barossa takes step towards FID as Santos sign 10 year 1.5 mmtpa LNG deal with DGI
- Papua LNG to move ahead on its own
- One small LNG bunkering operation in Asia, one giant leap for Asian LNG bunkering
- Qatar Petroleum kickstarts QP Trading with SPA with Pavilion Energy
- Cheniere increases its run rate, announces deal with Foran Energy
- Tortue project conceptoptimised in bid to deliver value
- Wilhelmshaven FSRU’s failed open season provides boost to other planned German terminals
- Russian Arctic LNG-2 finishes up fleet formation
- Norway’s Snøhvit LNG outage extended to a year after fire incident
- Tango FLNG project between YPF and Exmar comes to an early end
- Qatar Petroleum on track for lower emission North Field expansion projects
- Tanzania to resume negations with IOCs over delayed LNG project.
- Snøhvit LNG set for outage of at least one month after fire incident
- Equinor takes step towards full electrification of Snohvit LNG with FEED award to Aibel
- Golden Pass LNG update
- Sinopec award of 1 mmtpa tender to Qatar, brings Asian oil linked contract slopes to a new low
- Northeast Asia’s backlash against coal escalates (again), providing upside for LNG
- Regulator provides clarity on Gorgon propane kettle inspection and remedial work schedules
- Tokyo Gas acquires North Louisiana gas assets
- Weld issues found at Gorgon LNG
- CNOOC purchases two carbon-neutral LNG cargoes from Shell
- Vietnam to start importing LNG by 2021
- Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy makes move into LNG
- Mozambique LNG completes US$14.4 billion financing
- KBR’s retreat from LNG directly impacts five North America projects
- Myanmar’s first LNG-to-power plant begins operations marking the start of the country as an LNG consumer; PPA signed
- Gazprom hopes to defend market share with Greece contract first
- NOVATEK orders two floating LNG storage units in South Korea
- The great US LNG pushback arrives
- Gulf is Thailand's first non-state-owned player to receive an LNG shipper licence
- What's in store for China's gas storage?
- Croatia LNG terminal receives boost with short-term capacity reservations
- Yamal LNG goes over the top early
- Time is against IEASA on procuring LNG for upcoming winter in Argentina
- Shell announces its own FID on NLNG T7
- Argentina will increase its LNG imports this year
- Yakutia LNG project in Russia’s Far East seems far-fetched
- Could French regas become fully booked?
- JERA agrees to buy into Barossa, backfill field for Darwin LNG
- Utrenniy terminal to be expanded for Arctic LNG-1
- European gas storage: record inventory in place further weakens summer market
- Tortue FLNG start-up delayed by one year with BP declaring force majeure
- No project is immune: Mozambique’s Rovuma LNG sanction is postponed
- The fall-out continues: Nigeria LNG Train 7 delayed
- Shell leaves Lake Charles: It’s not you, it’s me
- Greece regas capacity booked, but coronavirus concerns cancel equity sale
- Coronavirus and oil price crash: read our latest insights
- Oil price crash eases burden for Chinese LNG offtakers facing weak demand
- Mozambique’s Rovuma LNG hits FID setback: ExxonMobil withdraws from US$2 billion US export credit agency loan
- Weak Lira hits Turkish gas demand, imports in 2019, but LNG up
- Russian NOVATEK announces 2019 results and future plans
- Qatar Petroleum secures EVEN MORE European LNG capacity
- UK’s South Hook terminal looks to expand capacity ahead of Golden Pass start up
- Spain regulator to create virtual LNG hub
- Qatargas and Shell gradually secures Kuwait’s LNG market
- Coronavirus to further depress global LNG markets
- Open and shut case for Bahrain LNG terminal
- Cheniere reaches 1000th cargo milestone in record time
- LNG imports hit record levels in most European markets in 2019
-
McDermott reports progress on the second trains at Freeport and Cameron LNG
- Two announcements by McDermott in December 2019 show progress at both Freeport and Cameron LNG.
- Kuwait’s KPC signs 3 mmtpa contract with QP
- Burst of LNG ship orders closes a record decade
- NLNG sanctions Train 7
-
Golar wins a power purchase agreement for an LNG to power project in Brazil
- Petrobras starts the process of leasing the LNG TRBA regas terminal
- Fully-booked capacity at Montoir demonstrates high demand for Europe regas
- PGNiG plans to expand small-scale LNG offering
- Equatorial Guinea awards Fortuna block to LUKOIL and signs strategic partnership with Vitol
- Qatar Petroleum ups LNG expansion plans to 48 mmtpa
- FERC authorization news
- Scarborough and Pluto Train 2 update
- Woodside increases Scarborough reserves by 52%, hits 11 tcf
- New gas consortium to supply Angola LNG
- Kosmos Energy and BP make major gas discovery offshore Mauritania
- Romania could take stake in new Greece LNG importing terminal
-
RusGazDobycha chooses EPC contractor for Baltic сhemical complex
- ConocoPhillips to sellnorthern Australia assets including Darwin LNG to Santos
- Uniper appetite for LNG builds as it signs HoA with Woodside
- Tellurian and Petronet sign MOU for potential 5 mmtpa equity investment in Driftwood LNG
- JGC-Fluor-TechnipFMC sign Rovuma LNG EPC in Mozambique
- New coal policy proposal could boost South Korea LNG demand
- Total concludes Mozambique LNG entry as US EXIM approves US$5bn loan to project
- Kosmos' Yakaar appraisal firms up resources for further LNG development
- Vitol and Mozambique NOC form LNG trading JV
- Russian Ministry of Finance to support Baltic LNG
- LNG agreements dominate Russia’s 5th Eastern Economic Forum
- Freeport LNG Train 1 ships first cargo while expansion project Train 4 raises $1 bn
- Panama regas project charters GasLog ship for 10 years as an FSU
- Russia's Arctic LNG-2 announces FID
- Arctic-2 will be first LNG project to use ships built in Russia
- PNG green lights Papua LNG, introduces new fiscal regime
- Qatar takes all of Belgium's regas capacity ahead of LNG expansion
- Shell makes a move into the Australia power market with potential implications for Queensland Curtis LNG
- Magic potion or Vitalstatistix fuel LNG shipping market?
- NOCs increase share in Greater Tortue Ahmeyim field in Mauritania/Senegal
- NOVATEK starts tender process for Obskiy LNG
- Osaka Gas becomes first Asian LNG toller to operate gas production in the US
- Indonesia’s Tangguh Expansion delayed by a year
- Rovuma LNG in Mozambique seeks revised EPC bids
- Indonesia approves Abadi LNG revised Plan of Development
- Summer season gets into full swing as Yamal exports 250 th cargo
- Taiwan LNG imports fall in first half of 2019
- Tellurian signs definitive agreements with Total for investment and offtake at Driftwood LNG
- First cargo of the season heads to Asia via the NSR as Yamal LNG produces above capacity in first half of 2019
- Mitsui and JOGMEC to get 10% in Russian Arctic LNG-2
- Pacific Oil & Gas announces first firm SPA with BP for LNG from Woodfibre
- Pavilion Energy takes over Iberdrola's LNG business
- Hong Kong offshore LNG terminal locks in supply and FSRU chartering
- First deal at Commonwealth LNG with Gunvor HOA, Venture Global increases PGNiG sales
- Panama Canal toll to go up for LNG vessels in 2020 (but not by as much as for some other vessel types)
- Anadarko and partners take FID on Mozambique LNG
- INPEX and Government of Indonesia agree next steps for Masela PSC
- Shell delivers first LNG cargo from Prelude
- PSC amendment opens the door for Aphrodite in Cyprus
- Cheniere announces FID on Sabine Pass Train 6
- Total increases its US LNG exposure with acquisition of Toshiba capacity at Freeport Train 3
- Bulgaria accesses cheaper gas through LNG imports
- Yudean imported first cargo via third-party access - China's terminals opening up
- NOVATEK plans new Obski LNG plant on Yamal peninsula
- NOVATEK selects TechnipFMC as EPC contractor on Arctic LNG-2
- Total steps into Mozambique LNG (Area 1)
- Mozambique's Rovuma LNG (Area 4) Development Plan approved
- JERA-CPC sign up for Mozambique LNG volumes and project sets FID date
- ExxonMobil signs a 20 year 1 mmtpa SPA with Zheijang Energy
- Chinese players buy 20% in NOVATEKs Arctic LNG-2
- Qatar Petroleum tenders for 100+ LNG ships
- Russian LNG plant inaugurated in Baltic
- Chevron's acquisition of Anadarko – What does it mean for Chevron's LNG position?
- Papua LNG JV signs gas agreement with the PNG Government
- Toshiba sale of its US business to ENN falls through
- Noble Energy sanctions Alen gas project to backfill Equatorial Guinea LNG
- Ocean LNG sign SPA with Golden Pass for entire 16 mmtpa output
- Baltic LNG dealt blow as Shell exits Gazprom project
-
Review of LNG19 in Shanghai contracting activity – April 2019
- New LNG contracts announced ..but US-China deals a notable absentee
- Shell – Signs Brent-indexed SPA for 2 mmtpa from Next Decade's Rio Grande LNG
- Total – Increases equity stake both in Tellurian and Driftwood and procures 1.5 mmpta offtake
- Total - Signs 10-year SPA with Guanghui
- Shell-Tokyo Gas - Fight coal with coal-linked contracts in Japanese power struggle
- Woodside - Signs HOA with China’s ENN Group to underpin Scarborough development
- NOVATEK - Signs two HOAs from portfolio, including from Arctic LNG-2
- PNG LNG – Signs SPA with Unipec Singapore (subsidiary of Sinopec)
- JERA contract LNG Canada volumes from Mitsubishi subsidiary
- NOVATEK commissions Vysotsk LNG (0.66 mmtpa)
- Mozambique LNG (Area 1) takes major step towards FID after signing SPAs with CNOOC, Tokyo Gas-Centrica and Shell
- NOVATEK sign deal with Siemens to provide compressor units for Arctic LNG-2
- ExxonMobil backs German LNG project with non-binding capacity booking
- Time is up for Ophir on Fortuna FLNG
- Mozambique Area 4 partners advance LNG marketing
Tables and charts
This report includes 47 images and tables including:
- Regas capacity holders at the Krk LNG terminal
- LNG bunker activity in Asia (open image in new tab for better view)
- Gas Agility fuels giant containership with LNG in Rotterdam
- Singapore LNG Supply-Demand Balance
- Post FID contracted capacity
- Cheniere Post FID contracted volumes v capacity
- South Korea vs. India monthly LNG imports
- Golden Pass LNG at ~18 months post FID
- Sabine Pass Phase 1 LNG at ~18 months post FID
- Terryville assets, North Louisiana
- Gorgon LNG output forecast
- Satellite and infra-red view of Gorgon LNG
- US LNG feed gas vs. capacity
- Capacity at Krk LNG terminal (2020-2030)
- Yamal LNG exports by initial destination*
- Monthly LNG imports in Argentina
- Arctic LNG-1 timing
- European storage fill requirements for summer 2020
- Short-term LNG supply - impact and what to watch
- Delivered cost to Shanghai city gate at different Brent price scenarios
- Gas Imports to Turkey 2018 - 2019
- TYR vs. USD$ and RUS
- QP's European regas position
- Contracted regas capacity in Europe by company
- Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi exports by destination
- Gross LNG imports - 2019 and previous maximum level
- LNG import seasonality (2014-2018)
- Europe monthly LNG send-out
- EG LNG output and Plant Capacity (mmtpa)
- Table 1: Impact on partner shares in Tortue in Senegal, Mauritania and Total GTA Area
- Table 2: Impact on partner NPVs in Tortue Phase 1, 2 & 3 from increased NOC share
- US LNG exports by destination
- Yamal LNG exports by destination
- Yamal LNG first 250 exports by initial destination
- Taiwan LNG imports by source
- Yamal LNG exports by initial destination
- Yamal LNG exports by final destination
- Yamal LNG exports by final destination
- Panama Canal LNG Transits (laden + ballast)
- Capex ($/tonne) and capacity (mmtpa) of LNG plant by year of project sanction
- New ship requirements from Qatar megatrains expansion
- New ship requirements from Golden Pass
- Combined Chevron-Anadarko Operated LNG Capacity
- Mozambique LNG (Area 1) Contracts
- McDermott's LNG backlog
What's included
This report contains:
Other reports you may be interested in
31 May 2017
China gas and power month in brief: Surging gas demand and the US$1 trillion story
China gas and power month in brief: Surging gas demand and the US$1 trillion story
The efforts China has made to nurture its gas market are bearing some fruit – gas demand grew by 22% year-on-year in April.
$95010 January 2020
China gas and power month in brief 2019
China gas and power month in brief 2019
Demand continues to disappoint.
$95025 September 2020
Coronavirus impact on gas & LNG markets in brief
Coronavirus impact on gas & LNG markets in brief
China becomes number one LNG importer and India imports more than South Korea for the first time in August
$1,050