A, he picked up a football and felt a longing for putting on pads and taking a hit.


“I was thinking next week I was gonna be on a football field,” Bridwell said.

On the phone, he said he was no longer having fun at the field, that his stress level lessened only when he was away from the ballpark.

His father said he still believed his son had the necessary tools to succeed. And he mentioned the conversation from years before in the pickup truck, when he told his son he’d never make his decisions for him. So he would not be an impediment.

But, Keith Bridwell sought to make clear, he had never taught him how to quit.


“Right when he said that,” Parker Bridwell said, “I made my mind up.The Australian Coal Seam Gas (CSG)-to-Liquid-Natural-Gas (LNG) industry began auspiciously, with its champions promising export revenue, royalties and jobs.

The three plants at Gladstone were built during one of the great resource booms of the past 100 years. Demand out of Asia for LNG appeared almost limitless at the beginning of this decade.

However, demand by the world’s largest LNG importer, Japan, has been shrinking, and growth in China and other emerging markets has failed to keep up with the boom in supply. Nominal global liquefaction capacity closed 2016 significantly oversupplied— 29 per cent above demand, and the gap between supply and demand widened over the year despite very low prices.

Even with growth in some emerging markets, and growth in some developed markets like South Korean and Taiwan, the global