LNG is so expensive that buyers are PAYING to exit contracts🚢💰

🇨🇳 China's Foran will pay ~$19 million to cancel a small LNG purchase deal linked to spot prices
💸 Why? Asian LNG spot prices have surged 1400% since Foran signed the deal in July 2020

H/T @danmurtaugh
Then Foran signed a new contract to buy 2-4 LNG cargoes a year from SinoChem from 2023-2039

The price of those cargoes will be linked to the Henry Hub gas index in the US, which hasn't surged nearly as much as spot LNG prices

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Apr 1
Natural gas traders in Europe are keeping a close eye on Russian deliveries 👀

➡️ Russian gas flows to Germany via the Yamal-Europe pipeline halted Friday after only restarting Wednesday
➡️ But deliveries via Ukraine are expected near maximum level

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
In fact, Russian natural gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine are at the highest level in months

Great chart from @JavierBlas

President Vladimir Putin’s demand to be paid in rubles for the fuel has been looming for days, with traders on edge about how that may affect flows

Russia said that flows will continue to Europe, but the lack of details on the new mechanism has left buyers scratching their heads
Read 4 tweets
Mar 31
Russia will halt natural gas deliveries to buyers from ‘unfriendly’ countries in Europe unless they switch to payments in rubles from April 1, said Putin 🚨 🇷🇺

🏦 Buyers of Russia gas will need to open ruble accounts
(This is becoming a game of chicken)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
European natural gas prices surged (momentarily) after Putin’s statement

Europe is highly dependent on Russian gas, but governments don’t want to pay in rubles Image
Clients should open special accounts in Russia-controlled Gazprombank to allow foreign currency to be swapped to rubles for settlements

The move comes after Germany and Italy said the Russian leader had told them that European buyers could continue making gas payments in euros
Read 6 tweets
Mar 30
Germany activated an emergency plan to secure natural gas supplies amid Russian disruption fears 🇩🇪🚨

☝️ The government in Berlin initiated the first of three possible phases
📉 Companies and consumers asked to reduce energy consumption wherever possible

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Germany’s main energy suppliers have warned in recent days that they can’t rule out interruptions to supplies after Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded payment of gas in rubles

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"This is a precautionary decision,” said Economy Minister Robert Habeck. “There have been several statements from the Russian side that, if that doesn’t happen, deliveries will be stopped.”
Read 7 tweets
Mar 30
Japan's top business newspaper investigated false claims about so-called "carbon neutral" liquefied natural gas 📰🇯🇵

The Nikkei found that LNG touted as adding no net carbon do not have a basis for that claim

The article is the 1st in Japan to cover this, and that's important🧵
First off, what is "carbon neutral" LNG?

These are LNG shipments where the seller or buyer by purchasing carbon offsets to cover the emissions of producing, shipping and burning the fuel

These offsets come from projects that are supposed to remove equivalent emissions elsewhere
But terms such as “carbon neutral” imply balancing emissions by removing an equivalent amount of carbon

Climate scientists say measures such as preventing deforestation or supporting renewable energy projects actually do little to extract additional carbon from the air
Read 14 tweets
Mar 28
Pakistan can’t afford to buy fuel from the spot market amid a global supply crunch 🇵🇰

💰 Pakistan didn't award last week's LNG purchase tender due to sky-high offers
💰 Factories choose to buy coal from Afghanistan as traditional suppliers too pricey

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
One of Pakistan’s long-term LNG suppliers recently canceled several cargoes for delivery scheduled through July, and the country can’t afford to replace them with spot market purchases 🚢
Imports from Afghanistan have risen to around 500,000 tons a month from zero last summer, and it now makes up 70% of supply for some factories in northern Pakistan

Afghan coal is 40%-45% cheaper than seaborne supplies

South African coal prices surged to a record recently
Read 6 tweets
Mar 28
A narrow majority of Japanese support restarting idled nuclear reactors for first time since 2011 Fukushima disaster, according to a new poll 🇯🇵☢️🚨

➡️53% said reactors should restart: Nikkei
➡️High fuel prices threaten Japan's economy, stretch grid

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Some 53% of people said nuclear reactors should restart, if safety can be ensured, while 38% said they should remain shut, according to the Nikkei poll

That’s up from 44% support for the restarts in a similar survey in September

nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…
I can't emphasize enough how much this is a huge shift for Japan

Japan's public opinion moved decisively against atomic power after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami resulted in the meltdown of three reactors at Fukushima, with most of the country’s nuclear reactors remaining shut
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