EnergyQuest’s West Coast Gas Outlook 2024 brings together the most comprehensive data, forecasts, and analysis available on the Western Australia domestic gas market. This 216 page report examines the historical, current, and potential future state of a market which has some major challenges ahead. We assess the path forward for gas suppliers and users, and […]
Role of LNG in the North Asian energy tr...
EnergyQuest Chairman Dr Graeme Bethune is also a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. The OIES has recently published a report by Graeme on the outlook for LNG in the North Asian energy transition. The report reviews progress with the energy transition in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, countries which were […]
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 […]
Australian LNG Monthly April 2023
EnergyQuest has just released the April 2023 Australian LNG Monthly report.Don’t let the comfortable shoulder fool youWe are now in that comfortable shoulder period, between the northern winter and the Australian winter, and it is easy to become complacent as it all seems back to normal. But the fundamental market tightness is still there. Rising […]
Australian LNG Monthly March 2023
Highlights from the EnergyQuest Australian LNG Monthly report. Australia may be a lucky country, but it is in a global competitionThe three largest LNG buyers in the world have a great interest in what happens with Australian energy policy. Based on our February import data, Australia supplied 45% of Japanese imports, 28% of China’s imports and 23% of Korean imports. These three LNG buyers accounted for 74.4% of Australia’s March […]
Australian LNG Monthly February 2023
EnergyQuest has just released the Febuary 2023 Australian LNG Monthly report. Did we just enter the eye of the energy storm?Those who go down to the sea in ships know that if you have the misfortune to be caught by a cyclone, it is an horrific storm. If it passes directly over you, then you […]
Australian LNG Monthly January 2023
EnergyQuest has just released the January 2023 Australian LNG Monthly report. In addition to all the LNG statistics, there are two main stories: One is on the proposed changes to the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism, asking whether Australia is really the stable and reliable energy supplier that politicians claim it to be. Whatever its […]
Australian LNG Monthly December 2022
In addition to comprehensive LNG statistics, our December 2022 Australian LNG Monthly report carried two important stories: $78/GJ gas price cap in Europe, $12/GJ in Australia. Coincidentally both the EU and Australia announced gas price caps in the week before Christmas. However, the timing is where the similarity ends. The EU cap will begin from […]
Australian 2022 LNG export revenue over ...
Based on vessel tracking data, EnergyQuest estimates that Australian LNG exports reached a new record of 81.4 million tonnes (Mt) in 2022, up slightly from 81.1 Mt the previous calendar year. However, with higher oil and LNG spot prices, Australian LNG export revenue was up a massive 86% on 2021 with estimated export revenue of […]
Falling gas prices
EnergyQuest has just released its Australian LNG Monthly for October 2022. There are special reports on: Some of the highlights of this report are: Information about the EnergyQuest Australian LNG Monthly is available by clicking here.