Cold-stricken Europe is drawing a flotilla of U.S. liquefied natural gas cargoes amid an energy crisis that has sent gas prices to record levels.
Facing a winter shortage and little relief from the continent’s main supplier Russia, natural gas in Northwest Europe is trading for about $57.54 per million British thermal units, up almost a third from a week earlier. That’s roughly $24 higher than Asian prices and more than 14 times higher than gas being sold on U.S. benchmark Henry Hub.
Out of 76 U.S. LNG cargoes in transit, 10 tankers carrying a combined 1.6 million cubic meters of the heating and power plant fuel have declared destinations in Europe, shipping data compiled by Bloomberg shows. Another 20 tankers carrying an estimated 3.3 million cubic meters appear to be crossing the Atlantic Ocean and are on a path to the continent. Nearly one-third of the cargoes come from Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass LNG export terminal in Louisiana, the shipping data shows.
U.S. LNG export terminals are operating at or above capacity after reaching record flows on Sunday. Asia is typically the top destination for U.S. LNG cargoes, but that has changed this winter with the significant premium for gas in Europe.
[The US is now sending significantly more LNG to Europe than to Asia.](https://i.imgur.com/eDNymUx.png) I’m kinda surprised such a large shift happened. Gas supply literally doubled in just the last month
First step for the EU is to stop ASAP buying gas from Russia and second (long term) is to reduce the LNG use in general.
Really hard to see EU’s logic of insisting on buying on spot markets. Yeah, when it’s cheap it’s cheap but then you have this. It’s glorified gambling.
We are basically fucked in a cold weather snap looking at [European gas storage levels](https://agsi.gie.eu/#/) 100% capacity for most European countries would usually last between 20 – 30 days of colder than usual weather. Another problem is not all countries own the storage facility located in their country. Russia has a lot of leverage in this situation natural gas is a major energy resources in the manufacturing sectors of most European economies according to the latest BP world energy report and then to add ut takes about a month to switch to a alternative energy resource for mist companies so Russia has the ability to create serious damage to our economys. Hopefully this winter weather is warmer than usual.
Cold stricken lol yeah we have major temperature poverty here in Europe.
Well that’s an excellent showing from the Americans, thanks guys.
Just tell Russians that NS2 is redundant because they are unable to use existing capacity and thus will not be approved. This will solve the problem in no time.
Europe, it’s time to start fracking. All this imported gas is from fracking anyway, we’re just adding on extra emissions for the processing and transport.
The best solution is one in which we don’t need gas.
The second best solution is one where we use the gas under our own feet.
Good guy USA!
See that Germany? Can you take the NS2 and shove it where the russian gas don’t shine???
Fuel-starved. Cold-stricken.
Man, I fucking hate this type of Journalism.
This is why the EU can never steer the wheel. They fuck up and need the US to clean up. This has been happening for over a hundred years now.
the fact that lng (even with the transport fees) seems like a reasonable idea says a lot
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Cold-stricken Europe is drawing a flotilla of U.S. liquefied natural gas cargoes amid an energy crisis that has sent gas prices to record levels.
Facing a winter shortage and little relief from the continent’s main supplier Russia, natural gas in Northwest Europe is trading for about $57.54 per million British thermal units, up almost a third from a week earlier. That’s roughly $24 higher than Asian prices and more than 14 times higher than gas being sold on U.S. benchmark Henry Hub.
Out of 76 U.S. LNG cargoes in transit, 10 tankers carrying a combined 1.6 million cubic meters of the heating and power plant fuel have declared destinations in Europe, shipping data compiled by Bloomberg shows. Another 20 tankers carrying an estimated 3.3 million cubic meters appear to be crossing the Atlantic Ocean and are on a path to the continent. Nearly one-third of the cargoes come from Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass LNG export terminal in Louisiana, the shipping data shows.
U.S. LNG export terminals are operating at or above capacity after reaching record flows on Sunday. Asia is typically the top destination for U.S. LNG cargoes, but that has changed this winter with the significant premium for gas in Europe.
[The US is now sending significantly more LNG to Europe than to Asia.](https://i.imgur.com/eDNymUx.png) I’m kinda surprised such a large shift happened. Gas supply literally doubled in just the last month
First step for the EU is to stop ASAP buying gas from Russia and second (long term) is to reduce the LNG use in general.
Really hard to see EU’s logic of insisting on buying on spot markets. Yeah, when it’s cheap it’s cheap but then you have this. It’s glorified gambling.
We are basically fucked in a cold weather snap looking at [European gas storage levels](https://agsi.gie.eu/#/) 100% capacity for most European countries would usually last between 20 – 30 days of colder than usual weather. Another problem is not all countries own the storage facility located in their country. Russia has a lot of leverage in this situation natural gas is a major energy resources in the manufacturing sectors of most European economies according to the latest BP world energy report and then to add ut takes about a month to switch to a alternative energy resource for mist companies so Russia has the ability to create serious damage to our economys. Hopefully this winter weather is warmer than usual.
Cold stricken lol yeah we have major temperature poverty here in Europe.
Well that’s an excellent showing from the Americans, thanks guys.
Just tell Russians that NS2 is redundant because they are unable to use existing capacity and thus will not be approved. This will solve the problem in no time.
Europe, it’s time to start fracking. All this imported gas is from fracking anyway, we’re just adding on extra emissions for the processing and transport.
The best solution is one in which we don’t need gas.
The second best solution is one where we use the gas under our own feet.
Good guy USA!
See that Germany? Can you take the NS2 and shove it where the russian gas don’t shine???
Fuel-starved. Cold-stricken.
Man, I fucking hate this type of Journalism.
This is why the EU can never steer the wheel. They fuck up and need the US to clean up. This has been happening for over a hundred years now.
the fact that lng (even with the transport fees) seems like a reasonable idea says a lot
Woo-Hoo!
Choo-Choo!
Honestly, they are trying to save France.