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Vol. 19, No. 44 Week of November 02, 2014
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Why LNG doesn’t trade like oil

Transportation another difference between oil and gas and long-term contracts make natural gas pricing opaque, unlike crude oil

Jeannette Lee

Researcher/Writer, Office of the Federal Coordinator

Constraints on LNG transport LNG shipments are also relatively inflexible. They need special, and very expensive, terminals for supercooling the gas to minus 260 degrees and then regasifying on delivery, and the gas usually is contractually bound to specific destinations under the long-term deal sig....

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