{"id":98770,"date":"2026-11-11T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98770"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:04:00","slug":"the-quiet-decision-that-helped-singapore-weather-the-hormuz-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98770","title":{"rendered":"The quiet decision that helped Singapore weather the Hormuz shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-description\">As the city-state takes chairmanship of Asean, it can help the region prepare for future disruptions<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-container\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">WHEN Singapore GasCo was established in May 2025, few could have predicted how quickly it would prove its worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Conceived after Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine exposed the risks of piecemeal liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracting by individual power generators, the centralised gas buyer began operating with little fanfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Yet, by March 2026, it had come to the forefront of Singapore\u2019s response to an energy crisis in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/opinion-features\/quiet-decision-helped-singapore-weather-hormuz-shock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the city-state takes chairmanship of Asean, it can help the region prepare for future disruptions WHEN Singapore GasCo was established in May 2025, few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}