Lake Charles Access - Third-Party?

摘要

With the typical summer upswing in US LNG imports delayed this year,spare capacity abounds at Southern Union's Lake Charles,Louisiana,terminal - a tempting prospect for LNG traders with available spot volumes,it might seem(p6).But benefiting from open-access rules at US LNG terminals turns out to be no easy proposition.Lake Charles,where BG has contracted full capacity on a firm basis,has received only three cargoes this month,according to the US Waterbome LNG Report,for a total of 8.9 billion cubic feet,or a theoretical average vaporization rate of 330 million cubic feet per day,one-third of peak capacity of 1 billion cubic feet per day.