Nate joined E&E News in 2008, establishing the New York City bureau, then later Energywire's Houston office. In New York he covered Northeastern environmental issues, carbon markets, renewable energy finance and international environmental treaties from the United Nations. In Houston he covered oil and gas with an emphasis on offshore drilling for Energywire. Currently he follows environment and energy developments in the Far East from Japan. He is two-time recipient of the U.N. Correspondents Association Gold Prize and honorable mention from the National Press Club. He previously worked for Nikkei. Nate graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota and holds a master's degree from the University of British Columbia.
Australia is set to become the world's largest source of liquefied natural gas capacity, but its export growth spurt is slowing, and perhaps peaking, as the United States takes over as the world's largest source of new LNG supply growth.
Malaysia's state-owned oil and gas company, Petronas, last week delivered its first liquefied natural gas cargo to a newly expanded receiving terminal at the port of Ishikari in Hokkaido, Japan.
A vast extractive industry is reaching the deepest parts of the deep blue sea, and marine conservationists are scrambling to protect the fragile and mysterious life forms found there.
The trade spat between the United States and China is escalating, and more companies and industries are becoming embroiled in it.
China's not the only nation that's thirsty for rising exports of U.S. natural gas.