Executives in the US natural gas businesses have recently alluded that the relatively low-priced environment for gas has prompted an increasing tendency for longer-term private transactions between suppliers and their customers, such as power companies, gas distribution companies and petrochemical firms. Experts and stakeholders believe large end-users are eyeing longer transactions to lock in reasonable prices — while producers are interested in such arrangements out of fear that growing US gas production could cause gas prices to plummet further in the future.
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