{"id":69113,"date":"2026-04-17T02:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/69113\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:21:23","slug":"iran-war-pushes-asia-to-think-twice-before-doubling-down-on-lng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/69113\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war pushes Asia to think twice before doubling down on LNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record wave of new liquefied natural gas supply was meant to usher in a prolonged period of lower prices. Governments from India to Southeast Asia crafted energy strategies that would allow them to use the surplus to move away from a heavy reliance on coal.<\/p>\n<p>After seven weeks of war in the Middle East that have caused the world\u2019s worst-ever energy crisis, those assumptions now look like distant, wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the serious damage sustained by Qatar\u2019s LNG export plant has sent prices higher and buyers scrambling for alternatives. Gas\u2019s reputation as a reliable and affordable energy source has taken a serious hit, and plans for its speedy adoption in Asia\u2019s developing nations have been derailed, with potentially long-lasting consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record wave of new liquefied natural gas supply was meant to usher in a prolonged period of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[262,154,138,34,263,7391,49,5896,4410,7890,5563],"class_list":{"0":"post-69113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-india","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-lng","13":"tag-malaysia","14":"tag-middle-east","15":"tag-philippines","16":"tag-taiwan","17":"tag-thailand","18":"tag-vietnam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116417664588992750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}