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US LNG exports to Europe must overcome obstacles, Senate panel told

Oil & Gas Journal: European imports of LNG from US suppliers face weighty constraints, witnesses told the US Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “Most [European Union] members in central and southeastern Europe do not have LNG regasification terminals and can rarely access LNG supplies through the EU’s collective natural gas distribution network,” US Assistant Sec. for Fossil Energy Steven E. Winberg testified at a Sept. 14 hearing.

“Specifically, the ability for US LNG to compete with other pipeline gas alternatives in the EU has been slowed by two factors: pipeline permitting and resistance to investment and buildout of critical infrastructure from regasification facilities. Storage capacity in the EU is also lacking,” Winberg said in his written testimony.

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