US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette played down the effect that a coronavirus outbreak in China would have on energy markets, describing the impact as “marginal” even as worry over a slowdown in Chinese LNG demand compounded pressure on gas prices already at record lows. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now China’s appetite for LNG and other commodities has slumped with quarantines and other restrictions from the country’s government following the outbreak. But the US Department of Energy sees China’s initial efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus as successful, Brouillette said at a February 7 event at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. “The coronavirus, as we can determine today, has not had a tremendous impact on energy […]