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Qatar is beginning to bring some of its liquefied natural gas tankers back to the Middle East, as the major supplier prepares to ramp-up exports once the Strait of Hormuz reopens following a US-Iran deal....

Unions in Australia and Japan's Inpex Corp. reached an agreement to end strikes at the Ichthys liquefied natural gas export facility after weeks of industrial action....

The country is aiming to restore most of its export capacity within two months....

Exxon Mobil Corp. struck a preliminary deal to bring liquefied natural gas to South Africa, which will use the fuel to bolster its coal-reliant power grid, according to people familiar with the matter....

QatarEnergy Plans Rapid LNG Production Restart As Hormuz Reopens Qatar shut the world's largest LNG facility early in the U.S.-Iran war after Iranian Shahed one-way attack drones struck critical energy infrastructure, triggering chaos across global gas markets, just as the Hormuz maritime chokepoint was shuttered. Now, with a U.S.-Iran peace deal set to formally reopen the waterway by Friday, there is encouraging news on the supply side: According to Bloomberg News, Qatar is preparing to rapidly restart LNG production, a move that could help ease the global supply crunch and accelerate the normalization of energy flows. Sources tell the outlet that QatarEnergy has been preparing for a fast restart since April by testing equipment, performing maintenance and keeping some production trains running at reduced levels. The restart timeline now stands at 50% capacity within one month and about 80% within two months - well ahead of earlier timelines. A full recovery of QatarEnergy's Ras Laffan comp...

Wenig überraschend ist der europäische Gaspreis nach der Ankündigung eines Rahmenabkommens zwischen den USA und dem Iran deutlich gefallen. Auch wenn der Preis infolge der Nachricht um etwa 9% und seit letztem Freitag um fast 15% nachgegeben hat, liegt der TTF-Referenzpreis weiterhin deutlich über dem Vorkriegsniveau. Damit reagieren die Marktteilnehmer weiterhin zögerlich auf teils uneindeutige Nachrichten. Zudem besteht Skepsis darüber, wie schnell LNG-Tanker die Straße von Hormus wieder passieren können und wie rasch die LNG-Produktion in der Golfregion wieder anlaufen kann..

U.S. natural gas futures were little changed, holding their ground amid recovering LNG feedgas flows and some warming in weather outlooks....

Fully restoring the remaining capacity, equivalent to two production trains, will take years...

Die europäischen Erdgaspreise fielen am Montag um fast 10 % auf den niedrigsten Stand seit April....

Qatar is planning to rapidly boost liquefied natural gas production once the Strait of Hormuz reopens, aiming to restore most of its export capacity within two months, according to people familiar with the matter....

The Ichthys plant in Australia's Northern Territory accounts for about 2% of the world's output and has the capacity to export around 9.3 million tons a year....

Japan's Inpex Corp. expects industrial action will disrupt output at its liquefied natural gas export plant in Australia....

The top executive at Woodside Energy Group Ltd.'s $17.5 billion liquefied natural gas project in Louisiana has departed, effective Monday, just over a year after she was hired, according to a company memo seen by Bloomberg....

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The US's emergency supply of crude oil has fallen to its lowest level since 1983 as the Trump administration moves toward completing its plan to release 172 million barrels to ease surging fuel prices spurred by the war in Iran....

First LNG Tanker Crosses Hormuz After Deal Announcement As Most Ship Managers Remain Cautious An LNG carrier successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz early on Monday, the first tanker carrying energy products to clear the chokepoint since the U.S. and Iran announced a deal to reopen the Strait later this week, according to OilPrice.com While tanker owners and operators remain cautious about rushing to send vessels to the area or having the ones inside the Persian Gulf move quickly toward Hormuz, one LNG tanker passed through the Strait today, carrying LNG to India. The LNG tanker Disha cleared Hormuz and is currently in the Gulf of Oman, ship-tracking data on MarineTraffic showed. The tanker had loaded LNG from Qatar's Ras Laffan in early March, just when the Gulf state halted LNG production and exports amid the closed Strait of Hormuz and Iranian missile hits on its LNG infrastructure at Ras Laffan. The first LNG carrier to transit the Strait of Hormuz following the announcement of t...

U.S. natural gas futures were lower with the market more focused on the loss of weather-driven demand than the U.S.-Iran agreement to end the Middle East conflict....

Total EU purchases fell to 4.6 bln euro...

Pump Pain Relief? Gas Above $4 May End Soon As U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Sends Oil Lower The national average for U.S. gasoline prices has hovered above the politically sensitive $4-per-gallon level for 76 days, or roughly 2.5 months, as the Gulf energy shock tightened physical markets and forced emergency SPR draws. But with President Trump declaring late Sunday, just 30 minutes before NY futures opened, that a US-Iran peace deal has been secured, and with WTI and Brent futures tumbling, pressure at the pump could begin to ease in the very near term. National gasoline prices could slip back below $4 in the coming days or weeks if the crude selloff holds and traders begin pricing in a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Still, normalization of crude energy flows will likely take months, if not longer, to return to pre-war levels. As of Sunday evening, AAA data show the national average for 87-octane gasoline stands at around $4.074. Patrick De Haan, a petroleum analyst at GasBuddy, wrote on X short...

The European Union purchased approximately 705 mln euro worth of Russian LNG...