{"id":61598,"date":"2025-04-30T00:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T00:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61598\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T00:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T00:51:16","slug":"lng-special-report-geopolitical-tensions-flex-in-eu-storage-directives-and-accelerating-lng-supply-growth-easing-the-lng-market-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61598\/","title":{"rendered":"LNG Special Report: Geopolitical tensions, flex in EU storage directives and accelerating LNG supply growth easing the LNG market tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                    <strong>Key Takeaway<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>LNG Market<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  As market enters the shoulder season, the outlook for summer 2025 has weakened on the back of three key drivers:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Deteriorating Chinese LNG demand, driven by US-China trade war slowing industrial output<\/li>\n<li>Increased flexibility in EU storage targets looks set to ease summer refill requirements, restoring a winter-summer premium for 2025-26<\/li>\n<li>Improving supply outlook driven by Plaquemines\u2019 rapid ramp-up in US and record Qatar exports, where output hit &gt;110% of capacity<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>LNG Shipping<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  A wave of newbuilds and reduced voyage distances continue to weigh on spot rates. Record low utilisation is forcing layups and scrapping in the elderly steam-propelled fleet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Chinese-built LNG vessels escape extra fees in US under the proposed USTR directive. But lack of clarity still clouds longer-term aspiration to create a US-built and operated LNG fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Takeaway LNG Market As market enters the shoulder season, the outlook for summer 2025 has weakened on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[14636,2000,299,5187,1699,1214,31809,5443,2846,369],"class_list":{"0":"post-61598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-apac","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-exports","14":"tag-fleet-distribution","15":"tag-lng","16":"tag-risk","17":"tag-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114424177219637759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}