

UNITED STATES NET EXPORTER OF NATURAL GAS LICENSE
WASHINGTON – Today, US Senator Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) introduced the License Natural Gas (LNG) Now Act to remove barriers placed on US exporters so they can quickly access the market and meet the global demand of natural gas. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.06.22.17 Cassidy Introduces LNG Now Act to Remove Unnecessary Restrictions on LNG Exports Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account That would allow Qatar to reclaim the title of top exporter from the United States later this decade. That should increase to 13.9 billion cubic feet per day by the end of 2022 as new export facilities are completed.īut rival producers are also building new infrastructure, with Qatar planning to boost its LNG capacity to 126 million tonnes (139 million tons) per year, according to ICIS. US export capacity should continue to grow in the coming years, according to the EIA, which estimates that peak capacity was 11.6 billion cubic feet per day in November 2021. But a number of EU countries, particularly those closest to Russia, are still almost completely dependent on Moscow for their gas.Ĭhina has been grappling for months with an energy shortage, partly caused by its attempt earlier last year to reduce the share of electricity generated by coal-fired power stations. The European Union has tried for years to cut its dependency on Russian natural gas. The liquefied natural gas tanker Sohshu Maru approaches a thermal power station in Japan. “Global spot gas prices have dropped back from their record highs seen in mid-December, but remain extremely high in historical terms,” said Alex Froley, an analyst at ICIS, adding that he had seen a “significant increase” in buyers signing long-term contracts to import gas from new US projects in recent months. Prices in both regions far exceed those in the United States, suggesting that US LNG exports will continue to increase in 2022. US producers have responded by boosting LNG shipments to Europe, where prices are now higher than in east Asia. Wholesale prices were rising again Wednesday as the flow of gas in a pipeline from Russia to Europe was reversed for a 16th successive day, Reuters reported. The European Union gets about 40% of its imported natural gas from Russia, much of it piped via Ukraine. Gas prices in Europe surged to new records in late December as confidence in Russian deliveries waned and controversy swirled over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that could carry gas from Russia directly to Germany. OPEC and its allies agree to keep pumping more oil Demand is expected to remain high in Europe, where there are fears about natural gas supplies from Russia as tensions grow over a military buildup at its border with Ukraine.Ĭrude oil storage tanks at Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and terminal in Saudi Arabia, on Monday, Oct. The United States will be the biggest exporter in the world through 2022 as a whole, according to forecasts from ICIS and the US Energy Information Agency. The United States only shipped its first LNG cargo from the lower 48 states in 2016, and has risen to become the world’s top exporter in just six years as a shale gas revolution boosted domestic production and turned the country into a powerful force in global energy markets. LNG exports from the United States topped 7 million tonnes (7.7 million tons) in December, according to ship-tracking data from ICIS LNG Edge, narrowly edging out rival producers Qatar and Australia for the first time. The United States is now the world’s leading exporter of liquefied natural gas as Europe’s energy crisis and shortages in China send demand for American shipments soaring.
