US Senator Wyden sees flaws in recently released LNG export study

摘要

U.S. Senator Wyden, the Energy and Natural Resource Committee's new chairman, has raised questions about a recently released report on LNG exports, Oil & Gas Journal reported. The study was conducted for the DOE by NERA Economic Consulting. In a Jan. 10 letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Wyden called the study "seriously flawed." Wyden continued, "The shortcomings of the NERA study are numerous and render this study insufficient for the department to use in any export determination. The NERA study would need to be updated with new projects, more realistic market assumptions, regional impacts of the proposed actual export terminals, and evaluations of the actual impacts on consumers and businesses of exporting LNG." The senator asked Chu to update the study before using it to make a determination on US LNG exports.