Qatar: Gas pricing pressures
Issue 1007
- 07 Jan 2016
| 2 minute read
Qatar has established new benchmarks for pricing liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, in a quickly evolving global market where spot LNG prices have fallen sharply and consumers have been pressurising exporters to reduce the cost of long-term contracts that are typically linked by a formula to average oil prices over a certain period. The most expensive East Asian markets are now paying only around $7/mBtu, down from a peak of nearly $20/mBtu.
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