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Natural gas chilled to liquid form for tanker shipment, sold to importers on long-term contracts and spot cargoes.
Korea swapped two of three projects in its $200 billion U.S. plan for reactors and Alaska LNG, ministry documents obtained by an opposition lawmaker show. Neither went through the feasibility study the originals had, and the only price on the LNG leg is Donald Trump's $54 billion.
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Glenfarne's $44.5 billion to $54.5 billion estimate puts Alaska LNG at more than double the cost of recent US projects per ton of capacity. The case for South Korean money now rests on cheaper shipping to Asia and pressure from Washington.
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Donald Trump threatened to double what South Korea pays unless Seoul backs an Alaska LNG stake Howard Lutnick put at more than $50 billion. Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms, that pressure is landing on allies while Trump keeps a trade truce with China.
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Donald Trump threatened tariffs of 150% to 300% on foreign firms that do not build US plants within about 18 months, a day after pressing Seoul on Alaska LNG. Seoul says it has only agreed to review that project, so its $350 billion pledge is still being bargained over.
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Pipeline buyers led by Williams and ONEOK paid about $14.7 billion in five midstream deals while upstream M&A largely stalled, Fortune reports. Most sellers are private equity firms getting their price from buyers betting on Gulf Coast LNG and data-center gas demand.
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Trump said South Korea plans to invest about $54 billion in Alaska's gas pipeline, but President Lee Jae Myung's party says it is not finalized. Seoul still has to test the project's commercial viability, so for now the figure is an announcement made weeks before a close Alaska Senate race.
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SK Innovation E&S will import 1.3 million tons a year of LNG from its 37.5% Barossa stake for 20 years, into a portfolio of roughly 6 million tons. The payoff turns on how much spot gas that displaces while LNG prices outrun crude.
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SK Innovation E&S is shipping 1.3 million tons a year of Barossa LNG from Darwin to South Korea, 14 years after it first invested in the field. The volume is secured for 20 years, equals about 3% of Korea's yearly LNG imports and is arriving while the Strait of Hormuz is blocked.
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Saad al-Kaabi says Scott Bessent is wrong that pipeline expansions will strand the Strait of Hormuz, and he warns that a disruption there takes oil to $150. The lines in question move crude, and Qatar ships gas.
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Canada's search for partners outside Washington now has a work order behind it, because the two governments told their space agencies and defence ministries to share infrastructure. The gas Macron asked for still waits on contracts.
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A dedicated entity would run local assets including a stake in Qatar National Bank that Crypto Briefing values near $50 billion, copying the Abu Dhabi structure where Mubadala and ADQ carry different mandates.
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