Cyclone shuts Australia's biggest LNG plants as global gas supply tightens

Michael West Media · AAP · Friday 27 March 2026

Cyclone shuts Australia's biggest LNG plants as global gas supply tightens

Cyclone Narelle has knocked two major Western Australian LNG facilities offline, compounding global natural gas supply disruptions already worsened by the Iran conflict.

Nature shuts down two gas plants and the market panics — which tells you everything about a supply chain built on the assumption that nothing ever goes wrong in the same week. We export enough LNG to heat half of Asia but hold so little strategic reserve that a single cyclone exposes the architecture. Fifty years of energy policy and our resilience plan is still 'hope the weather behaves.'

Also covered by