In mid-June the 2021 APPEA Conference was held in Perth, the first APPEA Conference since 2019 and probably the largest physical conference to be held in Australia since the start of the pandemic. It was a tribute to APPEA that they successfully ran the conference and it was great to catch up with many friends. […]
New Zealand walking away from gas
EnergyQuest CEO Graeme Bethune is also the International Gas Union’s Regional Coordinator for North Asia (China, Japan and Korea) and Australasia (Australia and New Zealand). In this role he contributed a short report on the current state of play in New Zealand to the June 2021 issue of the IGU’s Global Voice of Gas magazine […]
EnergyQuest Australian LNG Monthly May 2...
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for May 2021. Some of the highlights are: Australia’s May LNG shipments were the lowest since February 2019. Asian LNG spot prices have passed US$12/MMBtu. The Callide Power Station outage has boosted the share of gas in Queensland generation from 6% to 20%. Australian projects delivered 43 […]
Lack of Gas the Biggest Threat To Austra...
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for April 2021. Some of the highlights are: Australia’s LNG exports have weathered the pandemic well. Exports last calendar year were 78.3 Mt, up on 77.0 Mt the year before. In its latest annual report, the International Group of LNG Importers (GIIGNL) ranks Australia as the world’s […]
Record Australian LNG shipments: EnergyQ...
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for March 2021. Some of the highlights are: Australian LNG shipments bounced back to record levels in March 2021 with a big lift in deliveries to China. In March Australian projects shipped 7.2 million tonnes (Mt) (105 cargoes), significantly higher than 6.0 Mt (88 cargoes) in February […]
Australian LNG import momentum growing b...
The momentum for LNG imports in south-eastern Australia is accelerating amidst closures of coal-fired power stations and warnings of a possible gas shortage in Victoria as soon as 2023. The most advanced project is Andrew Forrest’s Port Kembla Gas Terminal, which has environmental approvals in place, the site leased and major works due to start […]
Fall in February LNG shipments: EnergyQu...
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for February 2021. Some of the highlights are: Australian LNG shipments in February 2021 were lower compared with January, primarily due to reduced production at the NWS and Ichthys projects, and the shorter month. Australian projects shipped 6.0 million tonnes (Mt) (88 cargoes) in February, compared with […]
EnergyQuest Australian LNG Monthly Janua...
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for January 2021. Some of the highlights are: Notwithstanding COVID-19, LNG imports by North Asian countries (including Taiwan) increased by 2.5% to a total of 200.3 Mt LNG in 2020, 4.8 Mt higher than in 2019 when 195.5 Mt was imported. China remains far and away the world’s largest gas importer, well ahead of number two, Germany and number three, Japan. […]
Australian 2020 LNG export revenue down ...
Last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the merchandise trade statistics for December, giving a final total for the 2020 year. The total value of 2020 LNG exports was A$36.2 billion, down 25.5% from the 2019 record of A$48.6 billion. We have been asked what impact lower prices would have had on taxes […]
APLNG Q4 2020 domestic gas prices 34% be...
Further to our post earlier this week, there has been further evidence today that domestic gas prices are significantly lower than LNG prices. Origin Energy’s quarterly ASX report for the December quarter 2020 discloses that average revenue realised from LNG sales by the APLNG project at Gladstone in Queensland was US$5.20/MMBtu. That is A$6.71/GJ. APLNG’s […]