Stranded Middle East LNG Supply Upends Gas Markets

The LNG supply out of the Middle East has not recovered in any meaningful way seven and a half months after the Iran war choked oil and gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Since March, some occasional LNG cargoes have managed to squeeze through the chokepoint where a fifth of global liquefied Natural Gas supplies passed before the war. The rare shipments are not making much of a difference in the global gas market, which suddenly found itself without a fifth of daily LNG supplies and whose second-largest producer, Qatar, is now barely moving…