Natural Gas Pipeline

Analysts, industry sources and company filings say that President Donald Trump's emerging war of trade with Beijing is a threat to the billions of dollars of planned U.S. LNG export projects. Many of these rely on China to be a major buyer. This threat is a reflection of the dual-edged nature Trump's policies. They are meant to boost U.S. businesses and force action against illegal immigration and drug trafficking, but they could also unintentionally undermine his hopes to vastly expand U.S. Energy output. The tariffs could impact long-term contracts and offtake agreements...and may make it harder for new US LNG...

Three officials with knowledge of the situation say that Japan may offer support for a $44billion gas pipeline in Alaska to appease U.S. president Donald Trump and avoid potential trade friction. Sources said that officials in Tokyo believe Trump will bring up the project, which is a key part of the U.S. security and prosperity, at his first meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru ishiba in Washington, as early as next week. The overall cost of gas is causing Japan to doubt the viability the 800-mile pipeline that would link fields in Alaska to a southern port where the gas...

The shares of U.S. utility, power and natural gas companies fell on Monday, in some of their biggest one-day drops ever recorded, as new AI from Chinese start up DeepSeek cast doubts on the projected surge in U.S. tech spending and electricity demand. The S&P 500 index rewarded power producers last year, as they anticipated a surge in demand for energy from data centers that are needed to scale Big Tech’s artificial intelligence technology. Analysts and economists have said that the wider adoption of AI-based models, such as DeepSeek's, which they claim was built in just two months, and is...

The U.S. energy regulator has actually reinstated the certificate for Williams Companies' Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Line ( Transco) on Friday, the company stated on Monday, which would allow the expansion of the task. In 2015, a U.S. appeals court said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) need to have better assessed the danger of significant greenhouse gas emissions, throwing away its arbitrary and capricious approval of the Regional Energy Gain Access To (REA) expansion job. The company had actually sought a short-term emergency situation certificate with the FERC to continue running its task, in September. Williams developed REA to assist...

Venture Global LNG has raised $ 1.75 billion after pricing its U.S. initial public offering within variety, the secondlargest exporter of melted natural gas in the United States said on Thursday. The company priced its offering of 70 million shares at $25. each, a day after cutting the price range to between $23 and $27. each and increasing the shares on offer. The company had at first set a target of offering 50 million. shares for $40 to $46 each to raise as much as $2.3 billion for. an appraisal of $110 billion. Endeavor Global was forced to nearly halve...

Kinder Morgan narrowly missed out on Wall Street's expectations for quarterly profit on Wednesday after the U.S. pipeline and terminal operator was hurt by lower crude and condensate carried through its pipelines. Shares of the business fell almost 1% in trading after the bell. Criteria crude rates settled down 3% by the end of the year, prompting business to produce less, therefore affecting the volumes for pipeline operators. The company also announced the Spear Intrastate Pipeline Task, a 216-mile pipeline construct that will supply about 1.5 billion cubic feet daily (bcfd) of capacity from Katy, Texas, to the LNG and...

The U.S. has extended the comment period on a federal study of the financial and ecological effects of the growing melted gas (LNG) export service after advisers had advised President Donald Trump to take a client technique to prevent approvals from getting overturned in court. The U.S. Department of Energy stated late on Tuesday that it is extending the remark period from Feb. 18 to March 20 in order to get appropriate stakeholder input. Trump has actually promised swift action on reversing previous President Joe Biden's pause on the LNG export approvals to huge markets in Asia and Europe. On...

The U.S. has extended the remark period on a federal study of the economic and environmental effects of the thriving natural gas export business as the administration of President Donald Trump seeks to protect approvals from any legal actions. The U.S. Department of Energy said late on Tuesday that it is extending the remark period from Feb. 18 to March 20 in order to get proper stakeholder input. In his campaign, Trump had guaranteed swift action on reversing previous President Joe Biden's pause on the LNG export approvals to huge markets in Asia and Europe. Reuters reported on Jan. 7...

The U.S. president Donald Trump lifted the moratorium on new export permits of liquefied gas imposed by Joe Biden, his predecessor in January 2024. Trump's executive order targeting the LNG industry was part of the series of policy initiatives to increase U.S. energy output. Biden has halted all new approvals until a study is completed on the economic and environmental effects of the export boom. The study was published in December. The U.S. LNG production was going to double, regardless of the moratorium. Biden had stopped new permit approvals before the government gave the green light for projects to increase...

U.S. President Donald Trump released a. flurry of orders within hours of his inauguration on Monday. planned to improve the nation's currently recordhigh oil and gas. production and loosen up previous President Joe Biden's environment. agenda. Here are some of the actions Trump handled his first day: ENERGY EMERGENCY SITUATION Trump stated a national energy emergency, meant to. supply him with the authority to reduce ecological. limitations on energy facilities and projects and ease. permitting for brand-new transmission and pipeline infrastructure. It allows you to do whatever you have actually got to do to get ahead. of that issue, Trump...

U.S. integrated midstream facilities company Plains All American Pipeline is set on Monday to price a $1 billion investmentgrade bond offering, the year's very first to fund an acquisition. Proceeds will be utilized to money an $800 million purchase of Ironwood Midstream Energy Partners and hybrid shares from EnCap Flatrock Midstream, Plains All American stated previously this month . The offering set the phase for what is anticipated to be a busy year of bond funding for acquisitions. Distribute lenders typically are expecting around $1.65. trillion of brand-new investment-grade bonds in 2025, topping the $1.5. trillion in 2024, making this...

Advisers to U.S. Presidentelect Donald Trump are prompting him to take a client technique to rebooting approvals for melted natural gas export licenses, fearing fast approvals will just get reversed in court, according to two sources knowledgeable about the discussions. The recommendations use a preview of the challenges Trump will face as his strong campaign guarantees to slash guideline and unfetter industry crash into the truth of governing an unwieldy administration. In an election-year move, current President Joe Biden stopped brand-new LNG export licenses and purchased his administration to conduct a. review of the U.S. LNG market last January after...

Russian President Vladimir Putin satisfied Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin on Sunday, Russian television speaker Pavel Zarubin said, as a contract allowing for Russian gas to transit through Ukraine nears its expiry date. Slovakia depends on gas going through Ukraine, and Fico has actually criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for refusing to extend the contract, which expires at the end of the year. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov later on informed the TASS news company that the talks had actually ended. He said the two leaders would not issue a joint declaration. Peskov, shown in a video posted...

The President Maia Sandu accused Gazprom on Thursday of creating an energy crisis in Moldova. She said the Russian energy giant refused to supply gas via an alternative route, if fuel stopped flowing through Ukraine by the end of the year. Since Kyiv announced that it would not renew its contract with Gazprom at the end of December, Moldova's 2.5 million residents have been preparing themselves for prolonged power outages. Russia provides Moldova with around 2 billion cubic meters of gas each year via Ukraine. This is piped to the breakaway region of Transdniestria which uses the gas to generate...

Russian gas exports through Ukraine to Europe were down more than 3% on Sunday and Monday from levels seen in current months, while nominations for gas to and from Slovakia were stable, data from Gazprom and a. pipeline operator revealed. Russian gas manufacturer Gazprom said it would send. 40.8 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe through Ukraine on. Monday, up from 40.6 mcm on Sunday however down from more than 42. mcm seen in recent months. Russia halted gas supplies to Austria's OMV in. mid-November due to a contractual conflict and a court decision. to award the Vienna-based...

The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has actually not confirmed these stories and does not vouch for their precision. - U.S. satellite television service provider DirecTV said on Thursday it had ended its contract to acquire Echostar's. satellite tv service, which includes rival Dish TV,. over a stopped working debt-exchange offer. - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is considering picking Kevin. Warsh as his Treasury secretary with the understanding that he. could later on be chosen to lead the Federal Reserve when Jerome. Powell's term as chair ends in 2026. - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump...

Numerous oil companies consisting of Exxon Mobil and Chevron beat an appeal on Monday by customers who implicated them of conspiring with previous U.S. President Donald Trump, Russia and Saudi Arabia to cut oil production, increasing rates at the pump. In a 3-0 choice, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stated 2 dozen consumers could not pursue class action claims due to the fact that they concerned political questions and the oil-producing policies of foreign countries. The court also found an absence of proof that the oil companies violated antitrust law by conspiring to raise rates....

Czech gas transmission system operator NET4GAS has won an arbitration case against Russian group Gazprom Export over payments it was owed, the Czech business said. In a filing late on Thursday, NET4GAS said a tribunal had bought (Gazprom Export) to pay the claimed amount together with default interest and reimburse N4G for the costs of the proceedings. Gazprom and Gazprom Export did not immediately respond to a. request for remark. NET4GAS has said it was declaring 113 million euros from. Gazprom Export after the Russian carrier stopped working to make payments. under contracts following the halt in products to Europe...

President Vladimir Putin stated on Thursday that Russia aims to keep pumping gas through Ukraine to the European Union but included that Moscow could not force Kyiv to keep the transit agreement which expires at the end of this year. As for Ukraine, we are not abandoning this transit, strangely enough. Why? Since we, and Gazprom, intend to satisfy all our commitments to our consumers with whom we have long-term agreements, Putin said. There is a transit contract that ends on December 31 of this year. However if Ukraine refuses this transit, well, we can't. force it, Putin stated. Putin...

Tips that Ukrainian authorities supported by Poland lagged planning and executing the sabotage attack on Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 are groundless, the Polish president's assistant stated on Sunday. Germany's previous intelligence chief August Hanning told Die Welt today he believed there were arrangements in between presidents of Poland and Ukraine to carry out the attack. These are completely groundless insinuations, Mieszko Pawlak, head of the global policy bureau at the office of President Andrzej Duda stated when inquired about the allegations by Polsat broadcaster, PAP newswire reported. Pawlak stated Hanning was serving when Gerhard Schroeder was German chancellor...

Russian natural gas continued to transit Ukraine to European customers as typical on Wednesday, Kyiv's gas transmission operator stated in the middle of reports of clashes near the Russian town of Sudzha where Russian gas flows into Ukraine. As of 13:00 Kyiv time (1000 GMT), gas is being transported to European consumers as normal, with no modifications. Nominations have actually been confirmed and the physical flow of gas is maintained, the operator informed Reuters. Russia's Gazprom said it would send out 39.4 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Wednesday, down from 42.4 mcm on Tuesday....

Ukraine's biggest state energy business Naftogaz is preparing to increase its gas and oil production this year in spite of a consistent threat of Russian bombardments, its CEO stated on Monday. CEO Oleksiy Chernyshov stated that Naftogaz prepares to produce 15 billion cubic metres of natural gas and 2 million tonnes of oil in 2024. In 2023, the company's gas production amounted to 14 bcm of gas Chernyshov said that Naftogaz's assets, which include gas. storage, oil and gas production centers and circulation networks, and other facilities were under constant hazard of Russian barrages as the war nears its 29th...