EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for January 2022. According to Bloomberg (13 February) the “US Is Exporting Every Molecule of LNG Possible”, due to the crisis in Europe (Bloomberg, 13 February). Australia however shipped fewer LNG cargoes in January (96) than in December (105), with short-term outages at the North West Shelf […]
Australian LNG export revenue surges in ...
Over the last few days we have been pulling together the numbers on Australian LNG exports in 2021 as well as taking a look at the future. Some of the major highlights can be downloaded below. We will delve into this in more detail in our December Australian LNG Monthly report in a couple of […]
EnergyQuest Australian LNG Monthly Novem...
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for November 2021. We have just released our November Australian LNG Monthly report. Extraordinary global gas prices are good for LNG producers but are starting to impact the east coast gas market. Also while Australia is the biggest LNG exporter to China, it’s position in the long-term […]
EnergyQuarterly December 2021. Net zero ...
The December 2021 EnergyQuarterly report has just been released, with comprehensive Australian energy data for the September Quarter 2021 and the year to September 2021 plus analysis of the latest developments. The cover highlights the increasing role of banks in pushing the world towards net zero. In just over a decade since the global financial crisis […]
EnergyQuest Australian LNG Monthly Octob...
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 […]