U.S. gas producers are counting on LNG exports to absorb record production from the shale boom. Those exports jumped 68% to a record 5.0 billion cubic feet per day in 2019 after soaring 53% in 2018.

Petronet will invest the money over a five-year period in Tellurian’s proposed $27.5 billion Driftwood LNG export project in Louisiana and the deal will give Petronet an equity stake in the project and rights for up to 5 million tonnes a year of LNG,

Since US LNG exports from the Lower 48 began in February 2016, Europe has received 28.3 Bcm of gas equivalent,

Total US LNG feedgas volumes reached a new all-time high of 9.4 Bcf/d Tuesday, after exceeding 9 Bcf/d for the first time on January 19.

Australia's Santos record annual sales revenue of over $4 billion, up 10%, generated from sales volumes of 94.5 mmboe

Australia has officially become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on an annualized basis, overtaking the previous titleholder Qatar.

Aramco has vowed to pump almost $160 billion into growth in the natural gas sector over the next decade, with a sizable portion of that money to be designated for LNG projects overseas.

China's LNG growth rate has almost halved to 27pc for 2018-19 and the signs are that growth is continuing to decelerate.

"This agreement extends Qatar's long standing LNG supply relationship with Kuwait well into the 2030's and highlights our commitment to meeting Kuwait's LNG requirements," Saad al-Kaabi, minister of state for energy affairs and the CEO of Qatar Petroleum, said in a statement

The project, expected to start up in 2024, will increase Nigeria's LNG output capacity by 35% from current levels of 22.5 million mt per year to over 30 million mt per year, NLNG said.