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Imports totalled ????.???????? metric tonnes in February, an 8.3% decrease month on month but a 10% jump year on year. The 2020-2022 average for the month is 6.4m tonnes.
???????????????????????? is the regional leader with 1.9m tonnes, followed by the UK (1.6m) and Spain (1.5m)
Europe accounted for a ????????% share of global LNG imports, unchanged month on month. Market share was 30% across the last quarter of 2022.
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Imports for the top 5 buyers – China, Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan – fell back to ????????.???????? tonnes in February, a monthly decline of 17%.
Global share of LNG imports amounts to ????????%, a 1 percentage point drop according to revised ICIS data.
???????????????????? continues to be the leading Asian importer with the country taking in 6.5m tonnes.
???????????????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????? ????.????????. Chinese imports were 5m.
China imported 11.2m tonnes of LNG across January and February, down 5% year on year. Volumes are also 18% below the 2021 equivalent, which was an all-time high for the period.
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South American imports – represented by Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia – were 0.5m tonnes.
Global share was ????.????%.
???????????????????? and ???????????????????????????????? were the only importers with February marking the first time in 3 months the latter has taken in cargoes.
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Average ICIS TTF rolling month+2 values held a $????.????????/???????????????????? ???????????????????????????? to the ICIS EAX equivalent in February. The month before Europe held a $????.????????/???????????????????? ????????????????????????????????.
Reclaiming a premium to Asia came as TTF prices averaged $15.71/MMBtu in February, ???? ????????-???????????????????? ????????????.
Can we carry this downtrend into the summer?
Source: Christopher Rene, ICIS Global Gas
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