{
  "id": 12493100,
  "title": "5 Natural Gas Stocks Profiting From the Strait of Hormuz Standoff",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/5-natural-gas-stocks-profiting-from-the-strait-of-hormuz-standoff",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-06T23:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "OilPrice",
    "slug": "oilprice",
    "url": "https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/5-Natural-Gas-Stocks-Profiting-From-the-Strait-of-Hormuz-Standoff.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Five natural gas stocks are currently profiting from the ongoing Strait of Hormuz standoff. Cheniere, an American LNG exporter, is shipping more LNG than it did a year ago and has raised its 2026 guidance. QatarEnergy has extended force majeure on its LNG deliveries through the end of November, while flows through the strait are still down more than 75% from prewar levels. Gas prices in Europe and Asia have climbed to their highest levels since the 2022-2023 energy crisis. Venture Global, an energy company that IPO'd in 2025, saw its stock jump 50% during the war before falling, but it's now earning $1.3 billion in net income with full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance between $8.7 billion and $9.1 billion. APA Corp, a U.S. gas producer, had negative $2.20 per Mcf for the gas it produced in the U.S. in the second quarter, but it has a long-term contract to sell 140,000 MMBtu per day to Cheniere, and expects to clear $950 million in pretax cash flow from gas trading this year. Golar LNG, which operates a floating liquefaction vessel, is the only company offering floating LNG on a lease-and-operate basis, and it's pitching its fifth unit as the earliest available anywhere as demand for floating capacity rises.",
  "summary": "When Iran struck Qatar's Ras Laffan complex in March and knocked out 17% of the country's LNG export capacity, the trade seemed pretty straightforward. Buy the American exporters, sit back and wait for Europe and Asia to come knocking for cargoes that didn't need to sail through the Strait of Hormuz. Cheniere did exactly what everyone expected it to do, shipping more LNG than it did a year ago…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}