LNG steps in as Brazil’s gas boom masks tight marketable supply
With marketable supply unlikely to grow significantly and limited scope for pipeline imports, Brazil is expected to continue relying on LNG to cover supply shortfalls, Ieda Gomes, senior adviser of Brazilian thinktank FGV Energia, tells Petroleum Economist
Brazil has seen a sharp rise in gross gas production in recent years, but infrastructure bottlenecks, high upstream infrastructure and transport costs, and the need to reinject volumes into reservoirs to bolster oil production has meant that little of this growth has translated into additional gas reaching domestic consumers, Ieda Gomes, senior advisor at Brazilian energy thinktank FGV Energia, told Petroleum Economist. With marketable supply unlikely to grow significantly in the short term and limited scope for pipeline imports, Brazil is expected to continue relying on LNG to cover supply shortfalls. National gross gas output climbed to a record 194mcm/d in October 2025, up from an aver
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