*India with a 1.6% year-on-year fall to 18.74mn tons for 9M 2021 is the only key Asian importer to see its LNG imports fall this year (MEES, 5 November). That said volumes remain firm by any sort of historical comparison with every month this year above 2019 levels and each of the last six quarters above 6mn tons – a level only breached for the first time in Q1 2020 (see table and chart).