Commodities trading platform firms CME and Intercontinental Exchange plan US LNG products
US-based global commodities trading platform companies, the Intercontinental Exchange and CME Group, plan to launch liquefied natural gas derivatives and futures based on LNG shipments from the US and competing with products focused on spot LNG and Asian supplies by firms in Singapore and Tokyo.
LNG agreements designed to attract finance
Steven R. Miles, Washington D.C., and Jason K. Bennett, Dallas, Texas
The terms for the sale and purchase of LNG are evolving towards more complex and flexible relationships between suppliers and purchasers which will allow an increasingly global market in the future.
The ever more intricate and dynamic commercial relationships between LNG suppliers and purchasers are typically set forth in Sale and Purchase Agreements, which serve as the foundation for most LNG trades worldwide.
Kaefer Group promotes vacuum insulation for LNG installations
Vacuum insulation has been known in industry in the form of double-jacketed pipes of varying constructions for many years but had to be refined for use in the LNG sector
When oil first came on stream natural gas was considered to be a more or less irksome by-product.
Today it has become another major pillar of the world's supply of energy and raw material.
On all continents plants and installations for the extraction and processing of natural gas are being built, and the list of medium-term and long-term projects is long.
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