In the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow podcast, NGI’s Christopher Lenton, managing editor of Mexico, sits down with Rice University’s Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin America Energy Program at the Baker Institute. Together, they dive into the energy policy paradox in the United States, where the push for energy dominance is colliding with market realities, triggering ripple effects across global oil and gas markets. Monaldi, a leading Latin America energy expert, outlines the chal...
Aug 06, 2025•19 min•Ep. 170
NGI’s LNG editors Jamison Cocklin and Jacob Dick examine the market implications of Canada’s entry into large-scale LNG exports, following Shell plc’s LNG Canada facility shipping its first cargo in June. Despite the milestone, Canadian gas prices continue falling relative to Lower 48 counterparts as the country’s producers aggressively ramp production ahead of demand. The discussion dives into the details of LNG Canada’s startup, timelines for other projects advancing on the country’s west coas...
Jul 28, 2025•13 min•Ep. 169
NGI markets editor Chris Newman sits down with Bracewell partners Bryan Clark and Jared Berg to discuss how companies can tap associated gas supply in the Permian Basin to fuel innovative co-located power arrangements and potentially receive higher pricing than at the oft-volatile West Texas benchmark, Waha. While data centers housing artificial intelligence grab headlines for their massive appetite for electricity, these projects represent a broader trend of associated gas assets being monetize...
Jul 17, 2025•32 min•Ep. 168
NGI’s managing editor of markets, Kevin Dobbs, interviews Pinebrook Energy Advisors’ Andy Huenefeld, managing partner. They delve into supplies in storage, production, weather-driven demand and export activity – with a special focus on prices in the Midwest and East. The latest U.S. Energy Information storage report showed overall inventories were 6% above the five-year average, but surpluses in the Midwest and East were notably leaner after June heat waves in those regions. While the winter hea...
Jul 15, 2025•19 min•Ep. 167
NGI markets editors Chris Newman and Jodi Shafto discuss whether long-dormant pipeline projects in the region could finally break ground under the new administration based on Jodi’s takeaways from the recent LDC Gas Forum Northeast conference in Boston. The duo examine the stark price divide between the pipeline haves and have nots. Appalachian gas traded near zero while New England spiked to $33.50/MMBtu this winter. With data center demand surging, the infrastructure gap could become even more...
Jun 23, 2025•13 min•Ep. 166
NGI’s Patrick Rau, senior vice president of research and analysis, checks all the boxes in sharing his expertise about the outlook for U.S. natural gas in a sitdown with NGI’s Carolyn Davis, managing editor of news. Where are domestic natural gas prices headed into 2026? Pat says it’s not one thing or another, as rising demand is ahead as more LNG export capacity comes online, and as industrial and residential/commercial sector consumption climbs. E&Ps are likely waiting for bullish natural ...
Jun 16, 2025•21 min•Ep. 165
Mexico’s imports of U.S. natural gas continue to break records despite macroeconomic and regulatory uncertainty. NGI senior editor Andrew Baker and Christopher Lenton, managing editor of Mexico and Latin America, discuss the demand- and supply-side factors shaping Mexico’s gas market, and why it matters for the United States. Lenton recently attended the U.S.-Mexico Gas Summit in San Antonio TX, where topics ranged from data centers to LNG terminals to the challenges facing state oil company Pet...
May 30, 2025•14 min•Ep. 164
In this episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow, NGI Markets Editor Kevin Dobbs talks with Paragon Global Markets LLC’s Steve Blair, managing director of institutional energy sales. The two discuss the summer ahead in natural gas markets, with a special focus on the densely populated and heavy gas-consuming Northeast. Blair and Dobbs address relatively modest gas production and lingering storage deficits in the East as well as domestic weather demand expectations for the summer ahead and beyond. Wildcar...
May 22, 2025•13 min•Ep. 163
Ben Cahill, director for energy markets and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, joins NGI's Jamison Cocklin, managing editor of LNG, to discuss how the trade war and other challenges could impact rapid U.S. LNG export growth. They explore supply, demand and price trends that could emerge as the Trump administration works to balance the U.S. trade deficit. They also discuss other challenges like the European Union's methane emissions regulations and LNG production growth in the Middle Ea...
May 17, 2025•29 min•Ep. 162
A new player has entered North American natural gas markets with data centers to power artificial intelligence on the rise in the United States. Natural gas access to power the facilities is a top concern for the major companies involved in the sector, and demand from new data centers could have a meaningful impact on future gas growth. NGI’s Leticia Gonzales, managing director for North American natural gas pricing, and senior markets editor Chris Newman dig into this issue. Plus, with summer j...
May 09, 2025•19 min•Ep. 161
With the ramp up of two LNG projects on the Gulf Coast this year and more demand on the way in 2026, all eyes are on the swift rise in prices. But will producers be incentivized to swiftly grow production volumes after a prolonged period of low prices? NGI's Jacob Dick, senior editor of LNG, talks with East Daley Analytics’ Jack Weixel, senior director of energy analysis, about the price and production outlook headed into 2026 and how volatility may be here to stay.
Apr 08, 2025•29 min•Ep. 160
NGI’s Christopher Lenton managing editor of Mexico, speaks to Sergio Chapa, senior energy analyst at Poten & Partners, on the latest trends in North American LNG and natural gas markets. Times have changed in the past few months with natural gas roaring to the forefront of the U.S. energy discussion. New LNG facilities are ramping up and other projects have taken on added impetus. How does the Trump administration in the United States impact natural gas supply and demand? How about Mexico pr...
Apr 02, 2025•22 min•Ep. 159
NGI’sKevin Dobbs, senior markets editor, and Patrick Rau, senior vice president of research and analysis, dig into the state of natural gas fundamentals and price implications. Coming off earnings season and executive outlooks shared on analyst calls, the two discuss the various factors that could influence producers to further ramp up supply – from key price thresholds to macroeconomic conditions. They also delve into long-term demand drivers, including swelling calls by LNG facilities for feed...
Mar 28, 2025•19 min•Ep. 158
After back-to-back warm winters, this year’s brutally cold showing has rapidly depleted Lower 48 natural gas inventories, flipping them from surplus to deficit and creating a challenging outlook for the upcoming injection season. With storage now sitting below five-year averages and record LNG exports consuming more supply, the market faces a steeper climb to rebuild stocks amid caution by producers to bring on more supply. A hot summer could siphon gas away from injections to make the task hard...
Mar 03, 2025•22 min•Ep. 157
NGI’s Christopher Lenton, managing editor for Mexico speaks to Wood Mackenzie vice chair for the Americas Ed Crooks on the swirl of executive orders signed by President Trump and how they are impacting natural gas fundamentals. Crooks delves into the outlook for the North American natural gas market and the impacts from tariffs, both those deemed certain and levies yet unknown. The discussion also covers oncoming LNG supply, and U.S. trade relations with Canada and Mexico, coal-to-gas switching,...
Feb 25, 2025•33 min•Ep. 156
After a year of regulatory slowdowns for LNG projects, the Trump administration has come in with agency shakeups, policy changes and executive orders. What does it mean for U.S. LNG project development and future natural gas demand? NGI’s senior LNG editor Jacob Dick interviews Arbo’s Tom Sharp, director of permitting intelligence, about what is happening on the regulatory front and why litigation risk still looms large for some LNG export projects.
Feb 18, 2025•27 min•Ep. 155
Despite talk of an energy emergency and regulations that have impeded resource development, U.S. producers have been pumping out more natural gas than ever. However, production levels have shifted widely in recent years, sinking between 2023 and 2024 and now rising again. What will 2025 bring for U.S. natural gas supply? NGI’s Leticia Gonzales, managing director of North American natural gas pricing, and senior markets editor Jodi Shafto delve into the production situation. They discuss recent p...
Feb 11, 2025•20 min•Ep. 154
Get up to date on the implications of President Trump’s wave of executive orders (EO), including one to restart approvals of LNG export projects, with NGI’s Jamison Cocklin, managing LNG editor, and Jacob Dick, senior LNG editor. The two break down a list of projects that could ultimately move forward as a result of the EO. They also review the challenges that remain for LNG projects working to reach a final investment decision. The discussion also examines how a study released by the Biden admi...
Feb 03, 2025•23 min•Ep. 153
As chilly winter weather took hold of the Lower 48 to start 2025, natural gas cash prices held in a volatile pattern, but they were still elevated compared with winter 2023/24. NGI senior markets editors Andrew Baker and Kevin Dobbs delve into the supply situation – from shrinking storage surpluses to wellhead freeze-offs – and how new LNG demand is factoring into the equation. Plus, as a new presidential administration takes the helm, Baker and Dobbs preview what could be in store for North Ame...
Jan 24, 2025•13 min•Ep. 152
Dive into the balance of winter price forecast as NGI’s Kevin Dobbs, senior markets editor, interviews Paragon Global Markets LLC’s Steve Blair, managing director of institutional energy sales. The two discuss the winter ahead in natural gas markets and explore the potential price catalysts. Blair covers the strengthening production and stout storage situation, as well as domestic weather in LNG demand. He also addresses potential wild cards for 2025, including the ongoing buildout of the U.S. e...
Dec 09, 2024•14 min•Ep. 151
Natural gas demand continues to defy forecasts calling for renewables to halt the fuel's growth in the Lower 48. That’s no surprise to one clean energy investor, Prithvi Ventures’ Rakesh Radhakrishnan, who spoke with NGI’s senior markets editor Chris Newman about how lifecycle costs and other factors would continue to play a huge role in decision making for power resources.
Dec 02, 2024•29 min•Ep. 150
Mexico is the United States’ largest trading partner, with about 75% of the country’s natural gas originating from the Lower 48 states. Cross-border energy trade in 2023 reached $66.5 billion, and imports of U.S. natural gas have increased for years as Mexico’s domestic production has decreased. With Mexico President Sheinbaum’s recent inauguration, however, the role of state-owned energy companies has been put in question. Now, with former President Trump’s re-election, NGI’s Andrew Baker, seni...
Nov 25, 2024•19 min•Ep. 149
Spark Commodities CEO Tim Mendelssohn joins NGI's managing editor of LNG, Jamison Cocklin, to discuss how bearish market fundamentals have been driving down freight rates for LNG cargoes. A “massive vessel oversupply,” combined with delays in U.S. LNG export projects, has pushed freight rates well below market expectations. Mendelssohn explains why these rates could remain low for the foreseeable future and explores the potential implications for the LNG shipping market as new export facilities ...
Nov 19, 2024•16 min•Ep. 148
NGI LNG editors Jamison Cocklin and Jacob Dick discuss the upcoming election and what a Harris or Trump presidency could mean for the U.S. LNG sector. They explore how either candidate may approach new export projects after a lengthy pause on authorizations that was imposed by the Biden administration. The conversation also focuses on Trump's tariff proposals and a potential trade war with China, as well as how down-ballot races could impact U.S. exports.
Oct 30, 2024•16 min•Ep. 147
An "impressive" 500 million tons/year of capacity for carbon capture utilization and sequestration (CCUS) projects in the United States are on the drawing board, designed to trap emissions from natural gas and oil projects. Those ambitions, though, have been tempered by uncertainties that include permitting challenges and public opposition. NGI's Carolyn Davis, managing editor of news, discussed the status of the domestic CCUS sector with Enverus Intelligence Research's CCUS expert Graham Bain, ...
Oct 21, 2024•30 min•Ep. 146
NGI senior markets editor Jodi Shafto interviews Andy Huenefeld, managing partner at Pinebrook Energy Advisors and contributor to The Energy Buyers Guide report. Huenefeld discusses key factors for the Lower 48 winter heating season that begins on Nov. 1.
Oct 16, 2024•20 min•Ep. 145
NGI’s Christopher Lenton, senior editor for Mexico & Latin America, sits down with one of the leading voices in Mexico's energy sector and the former head of Comisión Reguladora de Energía, Guillermo García Alcocer. The two discuss what could be on the horizon as Claudia Sheinbaum takes the presidential office in Mexico on Oct. 1, including potential shifts in Mexico’s energy regulatory bodies. In addition, with the Sheinbaum administration’s plans for transitioning Mexico’s electric generat...
Sep 27, 2024•31 min•Ep. 144
With natural gas prices having hovered around $2/MMBtu through much of 2024, NGI’s Pat Rau, senior vice president for Research & Analysis, delves into what may happen with producer activity moving into next year. Publicly traded producers have been on a tight leash the last five years in terms of production growth, he notes. With new LNG export capacity around the corner, however, publicly traded Lower 48 exploration and production (E&P) firms may push annual gas production above 5% year...
Sep 09, 2024•15 min•Ep. 143
From rising costs, construction delays and an increasing number of regulatory hurdles, U.S. LNG projects have seen a bevy of challenges this year, but how impactful really are the new obstacles? Baker Botts' Jason Bennett, department chair of global projects and co-chair of energy, discusses the near-term global natural gas market dynamics and domestic policies shaping the development of U.S. liquefied natural gas export capacity with NGI's Senior LNG Editor Jacob Dick. Despite rising complicati...
Aug 26, 2024•31 min•Ep. 142
Susan Sakmar, a visiting law professor at the University of Houston Law Center and board member at Flex LNG Ltd., joins NGI’s LNG Managing Editor Jamison Cocklin to discuss the state of the global natural gas market as summer nears an end. The two review geopolitical tensions and supply security issues that are likely to factor heavily into the liquefied natural gas market this winter heating season. The conversation covers the recent court decision impacting Rio Grande and Texas LNG projects th...
Aug 19, 2024•26 min•Ep. 141
