Gas cartel shaken loose?

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Via the AFR:

The UBS analysis comes just ahead of the introduction of the government’s controversial “domestic gas security mechanism”, which could cap LNG exports if it is triggered. But ironically the design of the mechanism means it would affect only Santos’s GLNG venture, rather than the two Queensland LNG projects that have extra gas to sell.

Mr Burns said, however, he didn’t expect the mechanism to be triggered for 2018, given the ability for the other two LNG producers to divert gas into the east coast market.

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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.