Natural gas is abundant. Reliable supply is not. Liquified natural gas, commonly known as LNG, was meant to close that gap. I like to think about liquified natural gas as oil's.Nerdier cousin. It isn't as big as oil, but it's becoming bigger, and it's sort of becoming this backbone for a lot of energy systems. It has so much of a broad reach in terms of where it goes for power generation, for industry, for transportation.India, Japan, Asia, and also Europe, all have long-term contracts. If you were gonna bu ...