Australian LNG

The IEA has done an analysis of the immense looming global gas glut.

Trump’s oil sanctions appear to be having some impact. Russian President Vladimir Putin remained defiant on Thursday (Friday AEDT) after US President Donald Trump hit Russia’s two biggest oil companies with sanctions to pressure the Kremlin leader to end the war in Ukraine, a move that sent global oil prices sharply higher.

Another gas reservation flag has gone up the pole today.

There is one thing that would put a serious cat amongst the pigeons for today’s gold and tech blowoff rallies, and that is an oil shock.

In the early 2010s, the federal Labor government made the fateful decision to allow liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from Queensland without requiring gas companies to first supply Australians.

The gas cartel wants Albo to stop it.

There is no substitute for stupidity in Australia.

I love QLD.

There is no substitute for sanctimonious greed.

It is an easy and appropriate target.

An MB reader has sent this excellent proposal for resolving the East Coast gas crisis by shutting down GLNG without creating sovereign risk.

The Queensland government has significantly undermined the Albanese government’s ambitious 62% to 70% emissions reduction target by 2035 by extending the lifespan of the state’s coal-fired generation until the mid-2040s or later.

There is justice in the world, after all.

In an address to the National Press Club, BlueScope CEO Mark Vassella warned that Australia risks following the United Kingdom’s industrial decline if the federal government fails to fix the gas market.

A national interest policy process is one in which a well-informed government determines its policy settings via a specialist area of the bureaucracy.

In the early 2010s, the federal Labor government made the disastrous decision to allow the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Queensland without forcing gas companies to first supply Australians.

Let’s make a story where there isn’t one.

Jacob Greber has a long tradition of being a businessomics commentator rather than an objective journalist, but he outdid himself yesterday with a bald-faced piece of propaganda for the gas cartel.

Japan wants security of supply.

This is good from The Australian.

For anybody who has followed this debate for any length of time, this is as depressing as it is typical from The SMH.

The fix is in for Australian gas.

As they say, a gas particle gathers no moss.

Cecile Wake is Shell Australia country chair and executive vice president Integrated Gas Australia.