Trade spat with China slows FIDS on new US LNG capacity
Hopes of long-term offtake with Chinese buyers have been dashed despite China's fast-growing demand for LNG. Developers of new US LNG projects are forced to turn to other markets, but competition will be stiff
The US will still overtake Qatar as the world's largest liquefied natural gas exporter eventually, but expansion of US LNG export capacity will slow now that developers no longer can bank on China's vast appetite for the fuel