Extremely low Asian spot LNG prices are encouraging more independent Chinese gas distributors such as Beijing Gas Group and ENN to snap up cargoes, using import infrastructure operated by state-controlled PetroChina (p8). Beijing Gas, the top town gas distributor in northern China, is expected soon to unload its first spot cargo via a PetroChina terminal in Tangshan in Hebei province. Well-placed industry officials say it has secured a window to unload a 60,000-ton Norwegian cargo supplied by France's Engie at a price of $7 per million Btu. Beijing Gas will move the gas from Tangshan to Beijing via a spur line linking a trunk line between Qinghuangdao and Shenyang and PetroChina's second West-East pipeline, as well as the Shaanxi-Beijing pipeline.
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