EnergyQuest has released its fifth annual analysis of the east coast gas industry. The outlook for the east coast gas industry is one of great uncertainty. The potential for large swings from balanced supply/demand, to tight supply, to the long term possibility of over supply foretells an industry roller coaster ride ahead. At 314 pages […]
NEW: West Coast Gas Outlook 2023
EnergyQuest’s West Coast Gas Outlook 2023 brings together the most comprehensive data, forecasts, and analysis available on the notoriously opaque Western Australian domestic gas market. This 186-page report examines the historical, current, and potential future state of a market which has been accustomed to low prices and plentiful supply but is now seeing the opposite. […]
Has Australia reached peak natural gas p...
Australia aspires to be a renewable energy superpower. Time will tell whether this is realistic or not but Australia is currently a natural gas superpower. It is one of the top 10 gas producers globally (number 7 in 2022) and one of the top LNG producers, importantly the only OECD LNG producer in the Asia […]
EnergyQuarterly Report
The EnergyQuarterly is an independent and comprehensive 160 page update on Australian energy, utilising EnergyQuest’s proprietary statistical data bases. Each quarter the report analyses: Major current issues in both global and Australian energy. East coast gas market. East coast electricity market. Western Australia energy market. Renewables developments. Energy prices. Oil and gas exploration. Energy politics […]
Market Intervention in the East Coast Ga...
EnergyQuest has released a new multi-client report on the Gas Market Intervention – a deep dive into the politics, policy settings, environmental drivers and implications for the gas industry following the recent market interventions of the Australian Government. The gas market intervention does not address the fundamentals, and more intervention is likely. “The government took […]
EnergyQuarterly March 2023: the governme...
EnergyQuest has just released its March 2023 EnergyQuarterly report with comprehensive analysis and data for the December Quarter, 2022 together with many statistics and analysis for January and and February 2023. A major theme of this report is the federal government’s proposed takeover of the east coast gas market, throwing out the OECD gas market rule book with a move to […]
EnergyQuarterly December 2022: Looming e...
EnergyQuest has just released its December 2022 EnergyQuarterly report with comprehensive analysis and data for the September Quarter, 2022 together with many statistics for October and into November. The federal government is poised to intervene in the east coast gas market. The report has a deep dive into the issues. Moves to cap gas prices would not only […]
Western Australia low energy price “para
EnergyQuest has just released its September 2022 EnergyQuarterly report. One of our findings is that with energy prices at eye-watering levels around the world, we believe that Western Australia now has the lowest gas prices in the OECD. In Q2 US Henry Hub prices in the U.S. averaged A$9.48 per gigajoule (GJ) and the UK National Balancing Point […]
EnergyQuarterly September 2022: Please c...
EnergyQuest has just released its September 2022 EnergyQuarterly report with comprehensive analysis and data for the June Quarter, 2022 together with many statistics for July and into August. There seem to be energy crises all around the world at present, driven by freak weather, the Ukraine war, COVID and botched decarbonisation. Global gas prices have outrun oil on an energy-equivalent basis. […]
EnergyQuarterly June 2022: Crazy east co...
EnergyQuest has just released its June 2022 EnergyQuarterly report. The east coast energy crisis is a recurring theme through this report. Gas has been an increasingly minor contributor to NEM generation, mostly in South Australia and Queensland. In Q4 last year gas only contributed an average one percent of generation in NSW and Victoria, minute […]