Oil Price Surging labor and construction costs are plaguing some major U.S. LNG export projects, threatening to delay new LNG supply to international markets. Wage growth since 2021, a shortage of skilled workers, and rising costs of materials with the inflation over the past three years have increased overall contractor costs for U.S. LNG export projects, analysts tell Reuters. Wages for
U.S. News BRUSSELS -European Union countries adopted a 14th package of sanctions on Russia that aims to close some loopholes and hits Russia’s gas exports for the first time, EU foreign ministers said on Monday. Western powers imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which have been progressively ramped up since.
BOE Report The amount of natural gas flowing to U.S. liquefied natural gas firm Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass export plant in Louisiana was on track to drop to an 11-month low on Friday, according to data from financial firm LSEG. Reductions at Sabine and other U.S. LNG export plants have often had a major impact on global gas prices. A
Oil Price Russia became the biggest supplier of natural gas to Europe last month, for the first time since 2022, replacing the United States at the top spot. “It’s striking to see the market share of Russian gas and [liquefied natural gas] inch higher in Europe after all we have been through, and all the efforts made to decouple and
BOE Report U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter Venture Global LNG this year became one of the country’s largest producers of the superchilled gas and the industry’s most contentious supplier, facing contract claims by six customers. The duo who founded the company, co-chairs Michael Sabel and Robert Pender, have turned the booming business upside down through strong contracts, good timing
World Oil (WO) — Energy Workforce & Technology Council President Tim Tarpley issued a statement in response to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight. During the hearing, Representatives discussed the administration’s ongoing LNG export permit pause, the push towards electric vehicles and energy appliance standards. “Five months into the administration’s LNG export permit ‘pause’,
Oil Price Back in March, S&P Global reported that a record 24 cargoes carrying nearly 1.6 million metric tons of U.S. LNG had reached Asia via the Cape of Good Hope in the first three months of 2024, with exporters choosing the much longer route and shunning the Panama and Suez canals due to various challenges. S&P reported that only 14 cargoes
BOE Report The amount of natural gas flowing to Freeport LNG’s export plant in Texas rose to a two-month high on Sunday in what energy traders said was another sign that the plant was wrapping up a series of outages over the past month or so. The startup and shutdown of Freeport and other U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export
World Oil (WO) – Texas LNG Brownsville LLC and a subsidiary of Glenfarne Energy Transition, LLC, has signed a second Heads of Agreement (HOA) with EQT Corporation for natural gas liquefaction services for an additional 1.5 MMtpa of LNG over 20 years. This transaction expands Texas LNG’s total HOA volume with EQT to 2 MTPA. With this transaction, and Texas
World Oil (Bloomberg) – Shell Plc and TotalEnergies SE are among several global energy companies in talks to buy stakes in Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.’s next liquefied natural gas export project in the United Arab Emirates. The two oil majors, as well as Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co., are looking for equity in the Ruwais facility, as well
World Oil (WO) – In the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasted that U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports will keep leading the U.S. natural gas sector as three LNG export projects soon begin operations and reach full production by the end of 2025. The EIA also forecasted increased natural gas pipeline exports, mostly to
World Oil (Bloomberg) – Enterprise Products Partners overcame the last regulatory hurdle to build a proposed deepwater oil port off the coast of Texas aimed at helping record oil exports to flow to markets in Asia and Europe. The United States Maritime Administration issued a license for the Sea Port Oil Terminal, which will allow Enterprise to move forward with
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