LNG Contracts

Cheniere secured first phase Sabine Pass LNG funding In February, the private equity firm Blackstone Group LP (Blackstone) provided Cheniere Energy Partners (Cheniere) with $2 billion to finance Sabine Pass LNG Export Terminal conversion project. Since then Cheniere had appointed eight financial institutions to raise up to $4 billion in debt to complete the financing. As […]

PTTEP bids above $1.9 billion cash to acquire Cove The state owned company PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Ltd (PTTEP) announced the terms of its new offer in cash to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Cove Energy plc. Since Shell and PTTEP from Thailand were competing to take over Cove Energy (Cove), Shell had made a first offer […]

Tsusho takes 32.5% of Encana’s Coalbed Methane Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Tsusho) has reached an agreement with Encana Corporation (Encana), Canada‘s largest natural gas producer, to acquire a 32.5% interest in a coalbed methane (CBM) project. Tsusho will pay C$602 million to acquire the interest and in capital expenditure over the coming seven years. Tsusho has […]

Definition “Take-or-Pay Contract” is one of the three most used LNG contracts type, see comments below. Take-or-Pay Contract are written agreements between a buyer and seller that obligate the buyer to pay regardless of whether or not the seller delivers the good or service. Generally, this obligation to pay does not involve the full amount due […]

Definition “JCC” is the acronym of Japanese Crude Cocktail or more formally Japan Customs-cleared Crude. This Japanese Crude Cocktail results from a basket of the most traded crude oils to be used as the reference price for long-term supply LNG Contracts. Japan created the JCC Contracts  after the first oil shock, in the early 1970s, to secure its first […]