New Contracts to Buy Gulf Coast LNG Slowed Significantly in 2023

According to analysis from Enverus Intelligence, in the first nine months of 2023, U.S. LNG developers signed 14 long-term sales and purchase agreements totaling 19.65 mtpa (million tonnes per annum). That pace is far slower than in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine and set off a mass scramble by Europe to secure natgas supplies anywhere they could. One of the big beneficiaries of that scramble was the U.S. with our LNG exports. This year (so far), things have slowed down with new contracts...considerably.

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