Editorial Comment

A. Blume, Editor On the changing landscape of global natural gas trade, the US has magnified its export power by remaining a net exporter for 13 months as of February 2019. Alongside increasing shipments of LNG from its startup export terminals in Texas, Louisiana and Maryland, the country continues to send even larger volumes of gas to both Canada and Mexico by pipeline. The US exported 4.6 Bft3d of natural gas in February, with a record 3.3 Bft3d going to Canada. Deliveries to Canada have expanded since last November, when the second phase of the Rover pipeline and the NEXUS pipeline commenced operations. The two pipelines send gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays to the Dawn Hub