Indonesia’s LNG Rebalance: Demand, Supply, and Global Impacts
When Export Desires Yield to Domestic Necessities Indonesia, long regarded as a dependable player in the global LNG market, is now making waves for a different reason. In 2024, the country diverted roughly 50 LNG cargoes—about 17% of its expected exports—for domestic use due to surging internal demand and declining gas production. This strategic redirection […]
Geopolitical Implications of Natural Gas Supply and Shipping Challenges
In a recent episode of the Oil Ground Up podcast, Dr. Robert Brooks, founder and CEO of RBAC, joined host Ian Wagner for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of global LNG and natural gas markets. With decades of experience in energy modeling and scenario forecasting, Dr. Brooks brought clarity to an industry facing rapid […]
RBAC Newsletter 2025 Issue 5
LNG, Trade, and Summer Strains: A Hot Time for Natural Gas Summer is fast approaching, the weather is heating up — and so is the natural gas market. As we enter the final month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, eyes turn to rising temperatures, peak power demand, and the intensifying global trade and energy […]
Natural Gas and LNG in the World Podcast Highlights
RBAC’s CEO and Founder, Dr. Robert Brooks once again had an insightful conversation with Armando Cavanha covering what has taken place in the global gas market in the first quarter of 2025. It was an incredible discussion that covered all facets of the market and the interplay between key regions such as North America, Europe, […]
RBAC Newsletter 2025 Issue 4
Natural Gas and LNG in the “No Pause but Yes Tariff” Era We are a quarter of the way through 2025 and already it has been quite the year in natural gas and LNG. The global trade war has been the hot topic of the year and its long-lasting effects could shape the global market […]
Alaska: New Frontiers in LNG
The Last Frontier and its abundance of energy resources is once again in the spotlight garnering interest from South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan for investment into its natural gas infrastructure. Alaska has a wealth of natural gas with 35 tcf of proven reserves on the North Slope and another 200 tcf potentially recoverable. The famous […]
RBAC Newsletter 2025 Issue 3
Bull Market for Natural Gas? We are now through the first month of 2025 and with a leadership change and fast executive action in one of the most influential countries in natural gas and LNG, the year is already off to a hot start. What’s in this month’s newsletter? We have a quick brief covering […]
Modeling Energy Transition Scenarios
As a natural gas market analyst, if you had to model energy transition scenarios then how would you do it? Have you heard of cap & trade? Nowadays more referred as an EMS or Emissions Trading System or Scheme, this system’s purpose is to reduce emissions through market mechanisms. So, if you were asked to […]
RBAC Newsletter 2025 Issue 2
2025 Natural Gas and LNG Off to a Hot Start We are now through the first month of 2025 and with a leadership change in one of the most influential countries in natural gas and LNG, the year is already off to a hot start with changes all around. What’s in this month’s newsletter? We […]
Iran’s $120B Bet on Natural Gas
Can Iran Catch Up in the Race to Dominate the World’s Largest Gas Field? In 2022 Iran released a 5-year development plan which shaped the overall strategy for the country across a variety of sectors. One of these sectors was energy, and specifically oil and gas. Taking advantage of some of the largest gas fields […]
