WITH GREATER AVAILABILITY of gas, the trading nature of gas has also started to change. While gas prices have historically tended to be more localised and more dependent on fixed long-term sales contracts than oil, we have seen a move to a more active spot market -often at considerable discounts to long-term contract pricing. This has been enabled by the increase in transportability of LNG due to growth of the LNG carrier fleet and receiving facilities.
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