Buyers want more flexible contractual terms: Cheniere

摘要

Existing and potential clients are asking for greater contractual flexibility, US LNG project developer Cheniere Energy’s managing director, Eric Bensaude, says. “Our customers are asking us to share more risks, both volumetric risk and pricing risk,” Bensaude says. The firm has had requests for deliveries on either a fob or des basis, shorter durations for contracts and new pricing formulas. All firms with offtake arrangements at Sabine Pass, excluding India’s Gail, can already choose to pay liquefaction fees rather than take their contracted supply.