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The company remains sanguine about India, which imported record volumes of LNG in 2024, and aims to tie up more long-term sale contracts with Indian buyers and expand its import terminal capacity when there is a need for it, Tom Summers, senior vice president for Shell LNG Marketing & Trading, told ET in an interview.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESummers defended Shell's India terminal's underutilisation, saying global utilisation average is probably 50% or less and its India terminal is strategically connected to supply and demand centres to serve the growing customer needs. Shell's Indian terminal's utilisation is about 40% while India's average is 55%.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESummers, however, refrained from saying whether Trump's tariffs were \"good or bad\" for the LNG market. \"But it certainly means we're having to weigh up multiple factors at the moment to understand the impacts on the market together with all the other fundamentals, technical and other geopolitical impacts,\" he said. \"It's another level of uncertainty that our buyers are seeking to understand and I think the same goes for some new supply projects.\"\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEven after the end of the Ukraine war, Europe will continue to need LNG supplies, Summers said. \"I won't speculate on Russian gas returning (after the war ends). There's a lot of geopolitical factors that are being weighed up at the moment,\" he said.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\"What we do see is that you need LNG as a base load supply to Europe now,\" he said, contrasting it with the pre-war times when Europe used LNG mainly to meet peak winter demand or acted as a balancer in the global market.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe global LNG market will \"remain uncertain over the next few years\" but LNG is \"really well placed\" to be \"able to respond to the uncertainties\", Summers said. \"The energy markets are constantly reconfiguring themselves and adapting to everything that's changing around us. We've certainly seen signs of that already in 2025,\" he said.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs appeared in the \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers/118958479\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EEconomic Times\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n"}}],"id":"/content/shell/countries/india/en_in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers/jcr_content/root/main/section","model":{}}],"id":"/content/shell/countries/india/en_in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers/jcr_content/root/main","model":{}},{"organism":"Container.Footer","children":[{"organism":"Breadcrumb.Large","model":{"links":[{"name":"Home","value":"https://www.shell.in/"},{"name":"About us","value":"https://www.shell.in/about-us.html"},{"name":"Media","value":"https://www.shell.in/about-us/news-and-publications.html"},{"name":"Shell in the news","value":"https://www.shell.in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news.html"},{"name":"Trump's trade tariffs add another level of uncertainty to LNG market: Tom Summers","value":"https://www.shell.in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers.html"}]},"id":"/content/shell/countries/india/en_in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers/jcr_content/root/footer/breadcrumb"},{"organism":"Container.Raw","ref":"https://www.shell.in/about-us/_jcr_content/root/footer/inherited.model.json","id":"/content/shell/countries/india/en_in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers/jcr_content/root/footer/inherited","model":{}}],"id":"/content/shell/countries/india/en_in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers/jcr_content/root/footer","model":{}}],"id":"/conf/shell/settings/wcm/templates/base/structure/jcr_content/root","model":{}}],"model":{"title":"Trump's trade tariffs add another level of uncertainty to LNG market: Tom Summers","text":"Tom Summers from Shell highlights India's significant LNG import volume growth, despite underutilisation of India's LNG terminals, and stresses Europe's ongoing need for LNG post-Ukraine war.","date":"2025-03-13T12:30:00Z","links":[{"name":"canonical","value":"https://www.shell.in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers.html"},{"name":"hierarchy","value":"en_in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers"},{"name":"homeTitle","value":"About us"},{"name":"homeUrl","value":"https://www.shell.in/about-us.html"},{"name":"locale","value":"en-IN"},{"name":"title","value":"Trump's trade tariffs add another level of uncertainty to LNG market: Tom Summers | About us"},{"name":"textDirection","value":"ltr"},{"name":"template","value":"base"},{"name":"contentPath","value":"/content/shell/countries/india/en_in/about-us/news-and-publications/shell-in-the-news/trumps-trade-tariffs-add-another-level-of-uncertainty-to-lng-market-tom-summers"},{"name":"externalDisclaimerText","value":"Shell plc Legal Disclaimer\r\nYou are now leaving the Shell website.\r\nThe link you have selected will direct you to a website that is not controlled by Shell plc or any member of the Shell Group. 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