Short-term LNG in 2012 - Asia remains the main destination for short-term LNG as activity declines

摘要

Short-term trading has become an increasingly important part of the LNG business over the last decade but tracking its progress and its share of the total volume of LNG traded is made difficult by the lack of a widely accepted definition of what constitutes a short-term trade and more importantly, the limited amount of reliable data on the level of activity. GIIGNL, the group of LNG importing companies, is one of the few organizations providing publicly available data on short-term trading. The 2013 edition of its annual report "The LNG Industry" was published at the end of March, containing tables showing the volume of LNG traded on a short-term basis in 2012. LNG Business Review reviews the information provided by GIIGNL data and the key trends that it reveals.