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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.
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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.
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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 ????.????%.
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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
