An entirely new kind of long-term contract is emerging in the natural gas industry, LLT the glacial progress of the world's longest sausage, the gas bubble, imperceptibly grinds to an end. No more are twenty-year contracts being made between pipeline andproducer atfiredprices or even with a rgerence
New features in long-term contracts from order 636
โ Scribed by Herbert, John C.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Weight
- 674 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0743-5665
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โฆ Synopsis
as is going more long-term. For ex-G ample, the goal of Natural Gas Clearinghouse, the author's company, is to sell 70 percent to 80 percent of its gas under long-term sales agreements. Currently at NGC, the mix between term and spot volumes is roughly fifty-fifty. By contrast, as recently as 1989 spot volumes accounted for more than 80 percent of NGC's sales. Presumably other gas merchants are experiencing a similar transformation. This shift in market portfolio signals a fundamental restructuring of the industry. Order 636, although not the only agent of change, is driving market behavior and directly affecting the term deals being struck in the new marketplace.
. . . the Order's primary influence lies in the fact that unbundling has cut away the safety net inherent in traditional, bundled, and city-gate service, based on the interstate pipelines' obligation to serve.
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