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» In March 2023, the Haisla Nation-led Cedar LNG project received federal approval marking a significant milestone to grow LNG exports from Canada. To build on that, the gas industry in Canada launched Energy for a Secure Future, a civil society initiative bringing together Canadian business leaders, Indigenous peoples, organisations, and experts to implement a new vision for Canada’s gas energy and infrastructure.
» LNG Canada’s Kitimat, BC project – on track to be operational in 2025 – continues to make significant progress.
» While the Canadian government has announced new tax credits for power generated from natural gas and a new “Hydrogen Investment Tax Credit,” which includes blue hydrogen, the overall government policy framework continues to be focused, like that of the Biden administration, on the electrification agenda, hindering Canada’s ability to capitalise as it might on the global LNG opportunity.
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Argentina continues to work on debottlenecking domestic gas supply.
Argentina’s total gas consumption was 46.2 bcm in 2022, slightly less than 2021. LNG imports came to 2.3 bcm, versus 3.5 bcm in 2021, and imports from Bolivia amounted to 3.8 bcm, compared with 4.7 bcm.
With gross production of gas averaged almost 130 mcmpd in summer months, domestic gas supply in Argentina maintained its historical season range, in which demand declines were driven by milder temperatures.
The Neuquen basin is set to increase its transportation capacity by 11 mcmpd this winter with the launch of the President Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline in July. Compression improvements will increase the expansion capacity by 11 mcmpd in 2024 and by 2025, Stage 1 will be completed, adding an additional 7 mcmpd.
Gas production is forecast to increase by winter 2023. As further expansions to the pipeline system are undertaken, new auctions are expected to take place, boosting production in the Neuquén basin, replacing Bolivian and LNG imports and offsetting decline in other basins.
The available volume of Bolivian imports is volatile, with contracts expected to cover only 7-8 mcmpd of supply this winter, well below the average 13.5-14 mcmpd during 2022.
This year, Argentina has so far secured 44 LNG cargoes for around $2bn. The country has expanded LNG imports because it does not have enough transport capacity to supply gas from its main fields to areas with the highest demand.
Brazil is taking steps to reduce gas reinjection, freeing up more supply for
local industries – most notably for fertiliser
Brazil’s total gas consumption was 26.1 bcm in 2022, down from 35.65 bcm in 2021. Gas imports from Bolivia in 2022 came to 6.4 bcm, versus 7.3 bcm in 2021.
Lula´s administration is announcing changes, which have not been completely defined yet, to the current energy policy. The government will seek to reduce gas reinjection in the pre-salt offshore associated oil and gas fields. Brazil is currently reinjecting volumes equivalent to twice the national consumption.
» The ministry of industrial development is creating a working group to assess how to fast-track the supply of domestic gas to the industries in Brazil. The group will be formed by representatives of the industry federations of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the ministries of industrial development and mines and energy, Petrobras, independent producers and the National Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP).
» Industry associations are putting pressure on the ministry of mines and energy to set out a policy for diverting some offshore gas that is currently reinjected into oil reservoirs for industrial use, to cut dependence on imported fertiliser in particular. Brazil currently covers 85% of its fertiliser consumption with imports.
» Petrobras will likely delay the process for privatising some of its assets, especially its refineries.
» Gas demand in the power sector has been subdued due to a favourable hydropower output and high LNG import prices.
» A recent report by Wood Mackenzie indicated that Bolivia’s natural gas exports to Brazil and Argentina might come to a halt due to the lack of investment and no new discoveries, implying that Bolivia might become an importer after 2030.
» China Classification Society (CCS), Singapore’s SDTR Marine (SDTR) and Shanghai’s Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) have jointly developed an 85,000-dwt ammonia-fuelled bulk carrier, CCS said on February 22.