EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for October 2021. In our latest report we take a look at the long-term outlook for LNG, both globally and for Australia, drawing on projections by the IEA, Morgan Stanley and the federal government. The biggest challenge for Australian LNG is not net zero. Australia has already […]
Australian LNG shipments and revenue rec...
The ABS trade statistics that came out last Thursday showed record LNG export revenue of A$4.9 billion in September, as higher oil prices and LNG spot prices fed into export revenue. We estimate that the results for October are even better, with shipments from Australian projects of a record 7.23 million tonnes (up from 7.0 […]
EnergyQuest Australian LNG Monthly Septe...
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for September 2021. Some of the highlights are: In the August LNG report we asked “What’s going on with global gas prices?”. Since then the whole energy world seems to have been asking the same question, with the cover story in last week’s issue of The Economist […]
A short history of Australian east coast...
The Oxford Institute of Energy Studies has recently published a useful paper by Visiting Research Fellow, Nikolai Drahos: Australia’s gas trilemma: prices, exports and emissions. https://www.oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Insight-100-Australias-gas-trilemma-prices-exports-and-emissions-.pdf The paper cites work over the years by EnergyQuest, including a contribution to a report presented to the World Gas Conference in Washington in June 2018, Exhibit 7 Australia’s […]
$100 million LNG cargoes?
Two weeks ago, on 16 September, we released our August Australian LNG Monthly report, which noted the surge in global gas prices. Significant growth in gas demand post COVID-19 in both North Asia and Europe has created competition for LNG cargoes, particularly from the US and Qatar, pushing up gas spot prices to record levels for […]
EnergyQuest Australian LNG Monthly Augus...
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for August 2021. Some of the highlights are: What’s going on with global gas prices? Significant growth in gas demand post COVID-19 in both North Asia and Europe has created competition for LNG cargoes, particularly from the US and Qatar, pushing up gas spot prices to record levels […]
EnergyQuarterly September 2021. Mega-dea...
The September 2021 EnergyQuarterly report has just been released, with comprehensive Australian energy data for the June Quarter 2021 and the 2021 Financial Year plus analysis of the latest developments. The cover story is the proposed Woodside-BHP Petroleum and Santos-Oil Search deals. The report analyses the drivers for both Woodside and Santos and BHP’s rationale in disposing of a business which they have had […]
Australian biofuels currently subdued
by APAC Biofuel Consultants Joint CEO and EnergyQuest Senior Associate, Mike Cochran. Australia’s biofuels industry is very subdued at present – COVID aside. The industry has contracted with more plant closures and no new investment of significance over the past 10 years. BIOENERGY ROADMAP However, Australia is awaiting the release of the Federal Government’s Bioenergy […]
EnergyQuest Australian LNG Monthly July ...
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for July 2021. Some of the highlights are: Australia supplied a record 72.4 Mt of LNG to North Asia – China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan- in FY 2021, up from 71.4 MT the previous financial year. The total landed value of this LNG is estimated to be […]
New report highlights growing divide in ...
EnergyQuest’s latest East Coast Gas Outlook to 2040, Balanced on the Edge, reveals a widening long-term divide between gas supply and prices in Queensland/NT and the southern states – with the industry balanced on the edge of not meeting demand in just a few years. The new report is the leading energy consultancy’s first in-depth […]