Asian LNG buyers push back on high prices

Tokyo conference highlights concerns over price vs. producer concerns over high cost of developing liquefied natural gas projects

Bill White

Researcher/writer for the Office of the Federal Coordinator

Asian buyers have gone public with their distress over the high prices they’re paying for liquefied natural gas. The premium they pay over natural gas prices in Europe and North America no longer is rational, fair or reflective of supply-and-demand fundamentals for LNG, they say. The markets heard a....

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