Natural gas–especially liquified natural gas–looks set to continue move higher

Natural gas–especially liquified natural gas–looks set to continue move higher

The Independent Commodity Intelligence Services published its supply/demand outlook for liquified natural gas today, Monday, February 7. The conclusion: Higher supply deficits for 2022 despite the addition of 24 million tons of LNG capacity in 2021. ICIS projects that supplies will increase by just 5.3 million tons in 2022. Demand is forecast to increase by 13.8 million tons.

Natural gas–especially liquified natural gas–looks set to continue move higher

Putting on hedges for a Russia-Ukraine conflict today (as in NOW)

On Saturday, January 15, in my “Saturday Night Quarterback” post wrote that conflict (a more comprehensive term than “war) between Russia and Ukraine remained a low probability event–but that the probability wasn’t zero and the the odds of conflict had increased in the past month. What’s happened since then? The odds of conflict have climbed