Implode-o-Meter News - The Trickle of U.S. Oil Exports Is Already Shifting Global Power

"If you're a buyer in, say, South Korea, and you're offered the same price from Saudi Arabia, Russia and the U.S., you're going to make the obvious choice: the U.S.," Mills said. "It's the one supplier you know is never going to threaten you or cut off supplies, which is certainly not the case with Saudi Arabia, Russia or Iran."
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[Further,] U.S. companies, led by Cheniere, have been spending billions of dollars on LNG export complexes where the fuel is cooled to minus 256 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 160 Celsius) to shrink it to 1/600th its volume so it can be shipped aboard ocean-going tankers. As a result, an international gas market is emerging akin to the long-established one for the more readily transportable crude oil.

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The Trickle of U.S. Oil Exports Is Already Shifting Global Power