Chevron CorpChevron Australia expects elevated LNG prices amid Middle East supply disruption, benefiting its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects.

Chevron Australia expects liquefied natural gas prices to remain elevated over the next few months amid massive supply disruption from the Middle East. "I have a hard time seeing the prices come down" in the next six months or so, Balaji Krishnamurthy, Managing Director of Chevron Australia, told Bloomberg TV on Monday, adding that Australia's LNG is trading at a premium in Asia given its geographic proximity to the key demand center. Chevron operates two massive LNG projects in Australia: Gorgon, whose 15.6 million tons in capacity is the larger one and the largest in Australia as a whole, and Wheatstone, which can produce 8.9 million tons of liquefied natural gas annually; together the two account for about 5% of global LNG supply. The spot Asian LNG price for October delivery into northeast Asia jumped at the end of last week to the highest level since 2022 amid the re-escalation in the Middle East that further delayed any recovery of LNG flows out of the Strait of Hormuz. The average price for October delivery into northeast Asia reached $26.00 per million British thermal units on Friday, up from $25.70 per MMBtu at the end of the previous week, the highest spot LNG price in Asia since December 2022, as the lack of meaningful recovery in Middle Eastern flows and an intensified race between Asia and Europe for winter gas supply kept the market tight.
Chevron CorpChevron Australia expects elevated LNG prices amid Middle East supply disruption, benefiting its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects.