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NGI’s 4Q2023 LNG Market Analyst Takeaways

by manusohal
April 8, 2024
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The worldwide LNG market continued rising in 2023 and faces a brand new set of challenges this yr because it continues working to satisfy projected demand development. Learn what NGI analysts realized throughout 4Q2023 earnings season and the way they view developments within the world pure fuel market transferring ahead.

Cheniere Vitality Inc. (LNG): Statistics from Cheniere and Shell plc (SHEL) present world liquefied pure fuel exports grew by 3% to 403 million metric tons in 2023. A chart within the Flex LNG Ltd. (FLEX) 4Q2023 presentation exhibits the U.S. grew its LNG exports by 13% year-over-year. That made the USA the world’s No. 1 LNG exporter in 2023 with what we calculate is an estimated market share of roughly 21%.

Baker Hughes Co. (BKR):  Baker Hughes famous that with an estimated world nameplate capability of 491 million metric tons/yr (mmty) final yr, efficient utilization averaged 86%. The agency mentioned utilization helped maintain the LNG market tight by way of the yr. Wanting into 2024, administration forecasts LNG demand to extend by 2%, which ought to lead to utilization charges remaining at robust ranges as they count on simply 15 mmty of nameplate capability additions coming on-line this yr. That’s according to the 7-20 mmty estimate posited by Shell, the 8 mmty from TotalEnergies SE (TTE) and 13 mmty by Flex LNG. We be aware that a part of the anticipated incremental provide in 2024 is Arctic LNG 2 in Russia, which could have a restricted market as a result of sanctions in opposition to it.

[Want to visualize Henry Hub, Houston Ship Channel and Chicago Citygate prices? Check out NGI’s daily natural gas price snapshot now.]

We imagine the midpoint of that 7-20 mmty forecasted vary might show to be a tad conservative. Enterprise World LNG Inc. acknowledged its second facility, Plaquemines LNG, is predicted to provide first LNG in 2024, probably as early as this summer time. That’s a quicker timeline than we imagine the general market had been anticipating. We estimate the primary section of Plaquemines will present roughly 13 mmty of capability. The 13 mmty of capability from Enterprise World plus simply one in every of three trains at Arctic LNG 2 in Russia equals 20 mmty.

LNG: Cheniere, which we estimate accounted for 50% of whole U.S. LNG export cargoes throughout 4Q2023, expects to provide roughly 45 million tons of LNG this yr, inclusive of deliberate upkeep at each the Sabine Go and Corpus Christi liquefaction vegetation. That steerage is roughly flat year-over-year. The subsequent wave of U.S. LNG is coming, however it received’t begin hitting in earnest till subsequent yr.

EQT Corp. (EQT): With EQT’s introduced 15-year tentative take care of Texas LNG to promote 0.5 mmty of pure fuel to that facility, presumably that’s one other North American producer that has added future worldwide worth publicity in an effort to diversify away from pricing tied to the Henry Hub. EQT has signed comparable offers with the Commonwealth and Lake Charles LNG initiatives. We imagine the vast majority of fuel transacted in the USA is influenced to some extent by costs actions at Henry Hub just because foundation differentials are primarily based on regional worth variations versus Henry. Different North American producers with future manufacturing tied to worldwide pure fuel costs embody APA Corp., ARC Sources Ltd., EOG Sources Inc., Chesapeake Vitality Corp. and Tourmaline Oil Corp.

Marathon Oil (MRO): Following the expiration of their legacy Henry Hub-linked LNG contract on the finish of final yr, Marathon Oil CEO Lee Tillman mentioned their Equatorial Guinea “built-in fuel enterprise is now totally realizing world LNG pricing.” That is definitely according to a discount in world Henry Hub listed long-term gross sales and buy settlement (SPA) offers in 2023. We be aware that in 2021 and 2022, there was a decent correlation between new LNG SPAs signed by North America sellers and people tied to the Henry Hub. They’ve since declined. 

Excelerate Vitality (EE): However that doesn’t imply Henry Hub priced LNG offers are useless. In February 2023, Excelerate Vitality signed a 20-year SPA to buy 0.7 mmty of LNG from Enterprise World beginning in 2027 in an effort “to satisfy the demand of our prospects which have an urge for food for Henry Hub volumes,” CEO Steven Kobos mentioned. “There’s undoubtedly curiosity from some events for Henry Hub listed long-term offers.” 

Pure Fuel Intelligence (NGI): Not surprisingly, the funding neighborhood was abuzz with questions in regards to the non permanent pause in non-free commerce settlement LNG export licenses instituted by the Biden Administration in January. NGI’s managing editor of LNG Jamison Cocklin wrote the pause was put in place to permit the U.S. Division of Vitality (DOE) to evaluate “how pure fuel exports impression the setting, power safety and home costs.” We imagine the evaluation is more likely to final past the November U.S. presidential election.

TC Vitality (TRP): In keeping with TC Vitality’s Stanley Chapman, COO of pure fuel pipelines, “the keep impacts about 20 or so initiatives which can be at present within the approval queue, however it doesn’t impression initiatives which can be already accredited.”

Vitality Switch (ET): Vitality Switch CEO Thomas Lengthy famous the DOE “most lately carried out comparable research in 2019, and primarily based on the outcomes of those research, the DOE subsequently accredited a number of LNG export initiatives.” He added that “the lately introduced moratorium on approvals of LNG export creates uncertainty as to when the DOE research shall be accomplished and whether or not the factors for approving LNG export initiatives shall be modified.” Equally, Cheniere CEO Jack Fusco mentioned “whereas this resolution doesn’t at present impression our growth initiatives or our FERC processes at Sabine Go and Corpus Christi, it does introduce regulatory and allowing uncertainty into the U.S. LNG trade as a complete.”

BKR: In fact, not all of these proposed 20 U.S. initiatives have been going to achieve a optimistic remaining funding resolution (FID) even when all of them obtain export permits in a well timed vogue. However as Baker Hughes CEO Lorenzo Simonelli mentioned, “there’s clearly initiatives internationally that may take the chance and offset what was anticipated from U.S. LNG over time.” And that’s the largest danger. We imagine one of many most important causes so many proposed U.S. LNG export initiatives have but to achieve FID is that the worldwide LNG export market is extraordinarily aggressive. It was tough sufficient for U.S.-based challenge builders to signal on new offtakers with out the export pause, however a yr or extra delay within the course of will present a window for competing initiatives to pounce. For instance, Qatar introduced February 25 earlier this yr that it plans so as to add one other 16 mmty of liquefaction capability to its already aggressive growth plans. The Biden Administration introduced the non permanent non-FTA export pause January 26. 

We additionally be aware that in its 3Q2023 earnings name, Baker Hughes anticipated 80 mmty of worldwide FIDs in 2023 and referred to as for “comparable year-over-year ranges of FID exercise in 2024,” with between 30-60 mmty in each 2025 and 2026. Baker had no change to its 2025-2026 view throughout its 4Q2023 name, however they seemingly lowered their goal for 2024 optimistic FID exercise to 65 mmty. We wouldn’t essentially name 65 just like 80, as a result of that’s seemingly a distinction of 3-4 trains not reaching FID, more than likely in the USA. Furthermore, the 2025-2026 FID exercise might have a extra worldwide combine on the expense of U.S. initiatives.

TRP: In the meantime, U.S. LNG initiatives which can be already below development proceed to plow forward. U.S. (and for now, whole North American) LNG feed fuel demand is at present roughly 14 Bcd/d, and primarily based on initiatives below development, TC Vitality sees that whole rising to greater than 30 Bcf/d by 2030, together with 3-4 Bcf/d from Canada, 2-3 Bcf/d from Mexico and the rest from the USA. In keeping with NGI’s North American LNG Export Challenge Tracker, LNG Canada accounts for 1.8 Bcf/d of that, with Woodfibre chipping in one other 0.3 Bcf/d. LNG Canada might deliver the full to almost 4 Bcf/d if it greenlights Section 2, and we imagine Cedar LNG and Ksi Lisims LNG might add one other 2 Bcf if momentum continues at these two initiatives. In Mexico, Sempra Vitality’s (SRE) Energia Costa Azul Section 1 (anticipated in-service in 2025) and the upcoming startup of New Fortress Vitality Inc.’s (NFE) liquefaction challenge offshore Altamira mix for 0.6 Bcf/d. We additionally count on NFE’s second challenge in Mexico so as to add one other 0.2/d when that’s on-line in early 2026.

NFE: As New Fortress’ CEO Wesley Edens mentioned throughout the firm’s year-end earnings name, CFE is their associate on FLNG 2 and has the assist of the Mexican authorities. “The President, his cupboard, the successor administration have all expressed robust need for this contract, this challenge to maneuver ahead shortly,” he mentioned of the Altamira challenge.

“I’ll let you know that all the pieces that we will apply for now has been utilized for and all the pieces is within the path of transferring to approvals,” Edens added. “So once more with the federal government successfully as your associate right here with huge monetary incentive themselves for this challenge to get on-line, once more, we’re utilizing current infrastructure that they’re paying for and not likely getting the good thing about now, plus the income within the challenge, make this extraordinarily engaging to them, and we don’t count on any challenges going ahead.”

That leaves one other 1.2 Bcf/d to achieve the underside of that 2-3 Bcf/d estimate for Mexico, which simply so occurs to be the dimensions of Section 1 of the proposed Saguaro LNG challenge off the coast of Sonora. That challenge already has all of its obligatory approvals. We aren’t making any predictions, however we be aware that Oneok (OKE) expects to decide about whether or not to go forward with its Saguaro Pipeline by mid-year 2024. Mexico can also be a associate of the Saguaro LNG challenge, by the best way.

Williams Firms (WMB): Extra LNG export amenities are going to extend the necessity for storage. As Williams COO Michael Dunn noticed on WMB’s Analyst Day and 4Q2023 name, when U.S. LNG export amenities “lose a prepare, you’ve obtained 2-3 Bcf/d you’ve obtained to discover a residence for that day. It actually wants to enter storage, you’ll be able to’t again it into the gathering methods. That’s numerous fuel that should discover a residence.” A lesson the market realized in June 2022 when an explosion on the Freeport LNG facility despatched 2 Bcf/d of feed fuel again into the market and contributed to decrease spot market costs on the time. Curiosity in storage initiatives continues to develop, with even Mexico’s state energy firm, Comisión Federal de Electricidad, in Mexico entering into the act. Market charges for storage have been creeping larger, however we imagine nonetheless aren’t fairly excessive sufficient to backstop a large wave of greenfield initiatives simply but.

The publish NGI’s 4Q2023 LNG Market Analyst Takeaways appeared first on Pure Fuel Intelligence

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