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European policymakers who support continued US cooperation with their natural gas and other energy supply diversification efforts should give Trump administration officials time to formulate their own policies before passing judgment, speakers generall…

Effects of yet-to-be-clarified Trump administration policy moves—from
possible new individual free trade agreements if the country withdraws
from multination treaties to an emphasis on increased domestic gas
production and new pipeline construction—on US liquefied natural gas
export growth are uncertain, speakers agreed at a Jan. 26 Atlantic Council forum.

According to the 2017 edition of BP’s Energy Outlook, global energy
demand will increase by around 30% to 2035, an average growth of
1.3%/year, driven by increasing prosperity in developing countries,
partially offset by rapid gains in energy efficiency.

LNG from the US cannot compete with supplies from Atlantic LNG (ALNG), says Nigel Darlow, ALNG’s chief executive officer. Speaking this week at the Trinidad and Tobago Energy Chamber’s annual energy conference in Port of Spain, Darlow noted that much was made of the US becoming an LNG exporter and its potential impact on ALNG, but said the US plants were simply noncompetitive.

US senators considering nominees to lead the US Departments of the Interior and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency should ask about ways policies can be improved to create jobs, benefit consumers, and improve the general economy and domesti…

Brisbane-based Armour Energy Ltd. has executed a gas sales agreement with the Origin Energy Ltd.-led Australia Pacific LNG group for the supply of 1.8 petajoules of gas from Armour’s Kincora Roma Shelf gas project in the Surat basin of southeast Queensland to APLNG’s LNG plant on Curtis Island near Gladstone over a minimum of 5 years.

Two US Department of Energy offices and the US Energy Association have prepared a handbook to help policymakers consider domestic natural gas resource development options to facilitate LNG projects in Sub-Saharan African nations.

Atlantic LNG (ALNG) is unlikely to benefit from the natural gas supply agreement signed last week between Venezuela and neighboring Trinidad and Tobago.

Atlantic LNG (ALNG) is unlikely to benefit from the natural gas supply agreement signed last week between Venezuela and neighboring Trinidad and Tobago.

Qatar Petroleum (QP) plans to integrate Qatargas and RasGas Co. Ltd., forming a combined company will retain the name Qatargas and operate all of Qatar’s LNG ventures.