Is the world on course for an oversupply of liquefied natural gas this decade?

Michael Holder
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BloombergNEF predicts emerging 'new order' in global LNG market as the clean energy transition gathers pace, but huge uncertainties remain over near term demand and supply

The reverberations from Russia's invasion of Ukraine look set to be felt across the global energy market for many decades to come, with the West's scramble for alternative sources of fossil gas likely...

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