Curtis Island to shut-in more production?

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Via the AFR:

Queensland’s high-cost LNG exporters may have to curtail production as some drilling becomes uneconomic amid depressed prices caused by a worldwide supply glut, global energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie warns.

In what he describes as the coming “LNG wars”, analyst Saul Kavonic will tell the APPEA oil and gas conference on Monday that the ongoing need for drilling at the three Queensland LNG ventures makes them particularly vulnerable in what is expected to be an extended period of depressed prices.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.