LNG Market Insights
Unlock the LNG market's potential with trusted insights and pricing for a reliable energy future.
The Intelligence Behind LNG Decisions
As LNG continues to play a bigger role in cleaner, more reliable energy—and has become more relevant than ever as pipeline gas flows face geopolitical shocks—market participants need fast, credible signals—not guesswork. LNG Market Insights delivers best-in-class connected LNG insights, combines real-time market intelligence with daily LNG reporting and analysis to help marketing participants stay ahead of rapidly shifting supply and demand.
Go deeper with advanced LNG shipping and vessel intelligence, plus LNG fundamentals and forecasting out to 2050. You’ll also gain clear visibility into where value is being created across the LNG chain—helping liquefaction plants, importers, and regasification terminals make informed decisions with confidence. S&P Global Energy is uniquely positioned to provide the LNG market with the comprehensive information and transparency across market insights, data and risk, as it needs to continue its development as one of the world's most globally connected fuels.
Who could benefit from LNG Market Insights?
LNG Traders / Trade Risk Analyst
Traders need to identify and act on price signals fast in dynamic LNG and connected gas markets, but fragmented data and shifting fundamentals make price discovery difficult. Our real-time reporting, expert analysis, and short-term LNG analytics coverage helps traders cut through noise, pressure-test opportunities, and act with confidence.
Strategy, Planning & Investment
Strategic planners need to find where to grow and diversify while managing long-term uncertainty across global LNG markets. Our package helps teams compare market outlooks, model future scenarios, and validate investment strategies using trusted regional coverage, expert analysis, fundamentals forecasts, and advanced analytics.
LNG Marketer (Supplier/Producer)
LNG marketers can struggle to connect fragmented market, pricing, shipping, and regulatory data quickly enough to support fast-moving trading decisions. Our LNG coverage brings these insights together in a single workflow with real-time intelligence, forecasts, and LNG flow visibility, enabling faster decisions and more effective risk management.
C-suite and Senior Decision-Makers
Senior executives need to cut through LNG market noise to understand emerging trends, assess competitive positioning, and build the confidence needed for investor, board, and stakeholder conversations. LNG Market Insights delivers connected, market-reflective intelligence that helps leaders identify commercial advantage, sharpen strategy, and drive stronger business outcomes.
Our Impact, by the Numbers
Product Features
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Price Assessments, Benchmarks, Daily News and Commentary
Pricing transparency to keep up-to-date with daily fluctuations and market moves, to evaluate market positions and evaluate potential trades.
Platts LNG Daily:
Equips market participants with a daily summary of pricing data and market-moving news, including market commentary, market heards, and tenders.
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Research
Covering short-term market trends to long-term strategic analysis on this dynamic market, our research reports help clients understand the risk in the LNG market and informs strategic and commercial decision-making.
JKM Weekly Price Forecast report:
Gain insight into the changes to our 10-month JKM price forecast and the most critical near-time fundamentals impacting prices.
LNG Weekly Scorecard report:
Provides weekly analysis on news, fundamentals, and their impact on the near-term price forecast.
Price forecasts for key LNG price points:
Weekly updates to the 24-month forecasts for JKM, NWE, GCM, West India, and Brazil.
Macro Analysis of the Industry
Annual long-term LNG market scenarios to 2050: informs your strategic planning analysis. Highlights long-term trends from our global energy scenarios model with stress test drivers behind forecasted supply/demand balances.
Event Driven Analysis:
Frequent strategic insight papers: one-off reports provide in-depth analysis on event and data-driven insights, while global and regional outlooks provide a macro view of the LNG industry. Additionally, deep-dive reports provide expanded coverage on the LNG value chain.
LNG import market profiles:
Regularly updated reports analyze the key drivers of near-term LNG demand and importing infrastructure growth in around 40 markets.
LNG Liquefaction profiles:
Around 100 granular liquefaction project profiles of existing and proposed projects are updated regularly.
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Key Datasets, Tools and Dashboards
Data tables, API, and powerful analytics dashboards provide flexible and customizable options to access critical global LNG market data.
Market Fundamentals:
150+ interactive market fundamentals dashboards: facilitate the quick investigation of trends in LNG importing markets to better understand drivers of LNG demand. For each market, we cover relevant data sets on LNG imports, gas demand, gas supply, power, and prices.
Trade Flow Data:
100+ additional interactive LNG fundamentals and outlooks dashboards: perform customized queries and analysis by linking our research-derived data with our proprietary LNG trade data in real time. This significantly improves your ability to interpret market trends, increasing your analysis quality while also saving time. Key data additions include contract pricing and metrics, liquefaction economics, company portfolio analysis, FSRU charters, and a trade flow map.
Liquefaction and Regasification Projects:
Expansive library of liquefaction project profiles: Detailed project reports ensure you are up to date on the development and performance of proposed, under construction, and existing liquefaction projects.
Contracts, Tenders, Outages:
- Detailed and frequently updated core foundational contracts data.
- Comprehensive view of LNG Tenders information worldwide, giving a short- and long-term view and insights into the market position for particular companies, plus market activity for LNG, enabling you to stay informed and ahead of competitors.
- Current and imminent planned and unplanned outages impacting liquefaction facilities. This dataset includes historical liquefaction outages and expected outages.
Ship Tracker and Vessel Information:
MINT is a specialized online platform that combines voyage-specific intelligence with real-time vessel tracking and analytics. Get the full picture on LNG cargo volumes, port locations, timing, and flows, including alerts on vessel diversions and new activity in your customized surveillance zones.
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AI-Powered Real-Time Market Activity
Platts Smart Heards
Track intraday pricing, market activity, and emerging opportunities as they develop with Platts Smart Heards, an AI-powered structured data set.
- See opportunities before they become obvious to the wider market
- Monitor real-time bids, offers, trades, and pricing
- Follow the grades, locations, and markets shaping price direction
- Turn market activity into faster, more informed decisions
- Bring structured intelligence directly into your workflows
- Deeper market transparency, with intelligence shared by market participants.
Built on exclusive Platts Market Heards, Smart Heards delivers market intelligence you won't find anywhere else.
Data & Distribution
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Why S&P Global Energy?
Unparalleled Experience
For 100+ years, we've delivered Platts price assessments for physical and forward markets. Customers count on us for news, pricing, and analytics, ensuring transparent, efficient markets for confident decisions.
Trusted benchmark pricing
Provides industry benchmark price indices with robust, transparent, proven methodologies, that guarantees data integrity with stringent quality controls, and adherence to strict guidelines and IOSCO principles.
Integrated European market pricing coverage
Covers 16 European hubs—natural gas, power, renewables, nuclear and coal —in one connected pricing service.
Historical view of Pricing
Comprehensive price history back to 1985 supports deep analysis of historical price trends to better understand the current market dynamics and forecast potential price movements resulting from similar previous geopolitical events.
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