Ethane is exported from Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania
Ineos aims to close US-Europe energy costs gap
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Indexation asymmetry is one of the factors put forward as to why more European gas importers do not sign up to long-term LNG contracts, preferring instead to take their chances either on the seaborne spot market or buying post-regasification on pipeline trading hubs. The customers of these importers—be they distributors, generators, or large industrial and commercial (I&C) end-users—demand TTF indexation because that is what their competitors have. And a relative scarcity of LNG term sellers willing to sell on a TTF basis means potential European buyers baulk at managing possibly decades of basis risk between an import contract on another index back-to-back with sales agreements on the T
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