Surging LNG Trade: How US Exports Will Benefit European and Global Gas Supply, Diversity, Competition, and Security

On February 8, 2016, the Atlantic Council’s Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative launched the report Surging Liquefied Natural Gas Trade: How US Exports Will Benefit European and Global Gas Supply, Diversity, Competition, and Security with a panel of experts discussing the report more in-depth and from different aspects.

The panel included the report’s author Bud Coote, Resident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center; Paula Gant, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of International Affairs at US Department of Energy; Christopher Goncalves, Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group; Leslie Palti-Guzman, Director of Global Gas at the Rapidan Group; and Fabrice Vareille, Head of Transport, Energy and Environment Section at the EU Delegation to the United States. David Koranyi, Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative’s Director at the Atlantic Council, moderated the discussion. The following questions and more were addressed during the discussion:

• How will US LNG exports impact the global energy hubs?
• What are the necessary elements that are needed to improve LNG trade on a global scale?
• What implications will US LNG exports have on EU’s energy market
• Will US LNG exports decrease Europe’s dependence on Russian gas?
• Following the Paris Climate Conference, how will the demand for LNG change globally and in Europe?
• What are some of the challenges that producers and governments face when it comes to regulating LNG exports to Europe?

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The Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative is a joint initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center that covers critical energy issues in the wider Eurasian space.