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Then there were Five

created: 29 Sep 2015 07:52
tags: australia lng

Just 5 years ago, Australia only had two operating LNG producing plants, the relatively small single train Darwin LNG Terminal and the original North West Shelf LNG plants, which are much larger and consists of five trains.

In 2012, these were joined by the Pluto LNG Terminal, and Australia started to become a more significant player in LNG globally.

2015 however, will forever be the turning point for LNG in Australia. First the Queensland Curtis LNG Terminal reached full commercial production and now we have this announcement that Gladstone LNG Terminal is up and running. So we now have about 35 million tpa capacity and 5 operating facilities.

This is before the great silver backed gorilla of a project, Gorgon LNG Terminal, will add another 15 million tpa capacity. That's not all, Australia Pacific LNG is to add 9 million tpa this year and next, whilst the Wheatstone LNG Terminal will add another 9 million tpa next year.

A year from now, total Australian capacity will be almost 70 million tons per annum, a close second place to Qatar which has 77 million.

The impact of all this on a market that has already seen big falls in prices, is going to be huge. This is before we take US investments into consideration. In fact given the bearish outlook for LNG prices, the shift from oil to gas will continue even at today's low oil prices. Which is yet another reason to be bearish on oil itself.

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Why The USA Should Export Crude: EIA Report

created: 18 Sep 2015 06:49
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I have something of an obsession with the ban on crude oil exports from the USA, both for ideological and practical reasons. A country that preaches the free market, should not indulge in such mercantile games. Moreover, I have never believed that the ban was good for the USA as a whole (though as with all such restrictions, there are beneficiaries, who tend to be very vocal in their support).

Now the EIA has published A Report examining the restriction and its impacts under a number of different scenarios.

They come to a number of conclusions, in line with what I have always thought:

1. In cases where the Brent-WTI spread grows beyond $6/b–$8/b, removal of current restrictions on crude oil exports would result in higher wellhead prices for domestic producers, who would then respond with additional production.
2. Petroleum product prices in the United States, including gasoline prices, would be either unchanged or slightly reduced by the removal of current restrictions on crude oil exports.
3. Refiner margins (measured as the spread between crude input costs and wholesale product prices), which tend to increase as the Brent-WTI spread widens, would be lower without current restrictions
4. Unrestricted exports of U.S. crude oil would either leave global crude prices unchanged or result in a small price reduction

So only US Refiners would lose out. The report calculates that they need a WTI/Brent differential of about $15 per barrel to encourage investment. Given the cost of this differential to crude oil producers, and the impact on their investments, favouring refineries is inefficient.

So for everyone's sake, lets repeal the law and get US crude exports flowing.

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Laying the Polarled Pipeline

created: 27 Apr 2015 08:52
tags: norway pipeline shell video

• Shell has a new video showing the connection of the new Polarled Gas Pipeline to their Nyhamna Gas Plant in Norway
• The pipeline which is expected to be completed this year will bring new supplies of gas from the Aasta Hansteen Gas and Condensate Field

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