Biomethane moves towards a global commodity market

Main findings from CEDIGAZ’s new Global Biomethane Market – 2026 Assessment

The global biomethane market is entering a new phase. Production continues to accelerate, but the most significant change is structural: biomethane is moving beyond a collection of regional markets, national support schemes and local applications towards an increasingly interconnected global commodity market.

CEDIGAZ’s new report, Global Biomethane Market – 2026 Assessment, examines this transformation and the forces reshaping production, demand, investment and trade. Regulatory changes, tighter climate targets, carbon pricing, energy-security concerns and delays in the deployment of low-carbon hydrogen are strengthening the role of biomethane across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

What does the Australia case tell us about challenges standing before the LNG industry today?

By Irina Mironova for Cedigaz

Australia remains one of the world’s largest LNG exporters and one of the earliest large-scale LNG success stories in the Asia-Pacific region. The country strengthened its export position through a wave of liquefaction projects commissioned between 2015 and 2019, including GLNG, Australia Pacific LNG, Gorgon, Wheatstone, Ichthys and Prelude.

Russia’s LNG Supply Potential: Why Shipping Matters More Than Liquefaction Capacity

Russia's LNG Potential Is No Longer Defined by Liquefaction Capacity

For years, discussions about Russia’s LNG future have focused on liquefaction capacity. How many trains could be built? How quickly could new projects come online? Could Russia achieve its ambition of becoming one of the world’s largest LNG exporters?

Today, those questions remain relevant, but they are no longer the most important ones.

Russia’s ability to increase LNG exports is increasingly determined not by liquefaction capacity, but by the logistical and technological constraints that connect liquefaction plants to end-users. In other words, the bottleneck has shifted downstream.