- Ranking by the end of the year (2019)
- Qatar
- Australia
- US
- Malaysia
- The US will surpass Malaysia this year
- "Truly staggering" -- Rigzone staff
- LNG exports from lower 48 only began in February, 2016 (Cheniere Energy, Sabine Pass, Louisiana)
- by end of 2019: US will have doubled export facilities to six
- US sends LNG to 30 nations
- largest buyers:
- South Korea
- Mexico
- Japan
- China (25% tariff on US LNG has crimped sales, but most think this is temporary)
- US "capacity": 700 Tcf that can be produced even when prices are below $3/MMBtu
- US LNG production will grow non-stop at 1 - 2 percent for decades to come, double the domestic consumption rate
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Chicago
From ZeroHedge. Unless I missed it, the most interesting metric was missing from the article -- how many days/weeks/months before Chicago runs out of cash. The good news: Chicago has a plan to get out of this mess.
Detroit is not on the list: google Detroit bankruptcy. One link to Detroit bankruptcy.
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Floating Away
It was dusk so the picture is a bit dark.
Freudian slip,but you have first word as NGL, not LNG. (We probably are #1 in NGL exports or close to it. I know we are the top propane exporter.)
ReplyDeleteThank you. I will correct that -- and that's the kind of typo I would not have caught, so much appreciated.
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