• Commonwealth Bank analysis flagged faster East Coast gas price rises in Sydney and Melbourne than Brisbane due to pipeline constraints.
• Limited capacity from Queensland to southern states raised deliverability risks as output declines from Victoria’s mature gas fields.
• Domestic reservation could lift local supply, but modelling showed materially larger benefits in Brisbane than Sydney or Melbourne.
• Wholesale East Coast gas prices nearly tripled in a decade, rising from $3-$4 per gigajoule in 2014 to about $13-$14.
• Linkage to global LNG pricing strengthened once Queensland LNG export terminals started in late 2014, tightening domestic price sensitivity.

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