US LNG - to export or not

摘要

LNG export project developers got some good news in June, when President Barack Obama's top energy aide Heather Zichal told the Natural Gas Roundtable in Washington that the administration supports US exports of LNG in principle . However, specific new guidelines on exports await completion of a study by the Department of Energy. "Some amount of LNG export makes sense, from our perspective, and I think you'll see policies to support that," Zichal said, adding "as a general rule of principle, the administration is not opposed to LNG exports." The DOE is required by law to approve quickly LNG export applications to countries with which the US has Free Trade Agreements, which constitute the bulk of the requests that are currently pending before the agency.