Singapore secures LNG to replace Qatar supply through 2026, regulator says in Freight News 05/06/2026 Singapore has secured enough replacement cargoes to offset disrupted supplies from Qatar through the end of 2026, Singapore Energy Market Authority Chief Executive Puah Kok Keong said in an interview in Houston. Qatar had been supplying about one cargo per month to Singapore prior to the war in the Middle East, accounting for about 10% city-state’s total gas demand before shipments stopped in April. To cover the lost volumes, Puah said Singapore procured cargoes from suppliers including the US, Australia and Africa. Natural gas supplies 95% of Singapore’s power generation, with about half coming from pipelines connected to Malaysia and Indonesia and the other half from LNG imports. That makes securing the alternative gas sources critical for sustaining the power needs of the Singapore economy, Puah told Platts, part of S&P Global, at a Singapore International Energy Week event in Houston organized by the regulator. “They will be sufficient to replace whatever lost cargoes from Qatar all the way until the end of the year,” Puah said. “While we do have the molecules coming in, it does mean the prices have gone up.” Even without the physical loss of LNG supply, many of the gas contracts in Singapore are linked to Brent crude prices that have also risen because of the war, which is continuing to constrain about a fifth of global oil and LNG supplies that normally transit the Strait of Hormuz. The regulatory chief said Singapore Gasco, a company formed a year ago to centralize natural gas procurement for the power sector, was instrumental in securing the replacement cargoes. In addition to those volumes, Puah said Singapore’s contracts provide some flexibility to procure more gas from other existing suppliers. Still, the loss of Qatari volumes represents a significant supply disruption for the city-state. Qatar accounted for about 48% of Singapore’s LNG imports in 20