石油设备网讯 据路透社4月9日新加坡报道，法国数据公司Kpler一位高管告诉路透社，该公司将与能源交易机构Power next一起，计划今年在新加坡推出一个液化天然气（LNG）交易平台，加入了一系列利用不断增长的现货成交量的公司。
此举正值超级冷冻燃料供应激增，加上健康的需求，随着许多国家和企业从燃煤转向更清洁的天然气，引发了交易的提振。
这两家公司3月份在新加坡成立了Spark大宗商品公司，并聘请了Tim Mendelssohn（此前曾与科赫供应以及石油巨头BP合作）担任其董事总经理。
本周，Mendelssohn在接受路透社采访时表示，由Kpler持有多数股权的Spark计划在今年第四季度推出一个面向实体液化天然气买家和卖家的交易平台。
Spark不会是唯一的一个交易平台，不断上升的现货交易量吸引了多家公司推出液化天然气定价和交易平台，其中包括GLX（该平台于2016年推出，其LNG交易平台于2017年投入运营）和占据主导地位的油价机构标普全球普氏。
GLX总部设在澳大利亚，但Spark将加入已经是亚洲主要石油交易中心的普氏新加坡交易所，该交易所正努力将自己打造成繁荣的液化天然气市场的主要交易所。
与拥有多个流动金融和实物交易平台和交易所的石油不同，液化天然气市场仍在不断发展，Kpler首席执行官、联合创始人Francois Cazor表示，客户一直在询问如何更快、更高效地进行液化天然气交易。
Cazor说："为了做到这一点，我们希望为Kpler建立一个单独的实体，一个使我们能够集中精力为商品流动提供更大透明度的实体，同时给予新实体Spark必要的自由，专注于价格和改进交易过程。”
注：Kpler是一家法国数据情报公司，主要以其船舶跟踪和货物信息服务而闻名，交易员和分析师利用这些服务来监测全球石油或液化天然气等产品的供需变化。
Power Next是欧洲最大的电力批发交易所欧洲能源交易所（EEX）的一部分，该交易所也提供天然气产品。EEX于去年在新加坡推出了EEX Asia，它是德国德意志交易所集团的子公司。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Kpler, Powernext to launch LNG trading platform in Singapore
French data firm Kpler and energy exchange Powernext plan to launch a trading platform for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Singapore this year, company executives told Reuters, joining a run of firms capitalising on growing spot volumes.
The move comes amid a surge in supply of the super-chilled fuel, along with healthy demand, which has triggered a boost in trading as many countries and companies switch from burning coal to cleaner natural gas.
The two companies set up Spark Commodities in Singapore in March and have hired Tim Mendelssohn, previously with Koch Supply and Trading and oil major BP, as its managing director.
Spark, which is majority-owned by Kpler, aims to launch a trading platform for physical LNG buyers and sellers by the fourth quarter of this year, Mendelssohn told Reuters in an interview this week.
Spark will not be alone. Rising spot trading volumes have attracted several companies to launch LNG pricing and trading platforms, including GLX and dominant oil price agency S&P Global Platts.
GLX is based in Australia, but Spark will join Platts in Singapore - already Asia’s main oil trading hub - which is vying to establish itself as the main exchange point for the booming LNG market.
Unlike oil, which has several liquid financial and physical trading platforms and exchanges, LNG markets are still evolving, and Kpler chief executive and co-founder Francois Cazor said clients had been asking how to trade LNG faster and more efficiently.
“To do this, we wanted to create a separate entity to Kpler; one which allowed us to focus on providing greater transparency to commodity flows whilst giving the new entity, Spark, the necessary freedom to focus on price and improving the transaction process,” said Cazor.
Kpler is a French data intelligence firm mostly known for its ship tracking and cargo information services, which traders and analysts use to monitor global supply and demand changes for products like oil or LNG.
Powernext is part of the European Energy Exchange (EEX), Europe’s biggest wholesale electricity bourse, which also offers natural gas products.
EEX, which launched EEX Asia in Singapore last year, is a subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Boerse AG exchange group.
