石油设备网讯 据路透社伦敦6月7日报道，周四，定价机构普氏收到了第一份透明的液化天然气 (LNG) 货物投标，以交付到欧洲, 标志着全球LNG定价更加开放，并强调欧洲对LNG贸易的重要性。
大多数液化天然气是以长期合同进行交易的，价格是商业机密，但越来越多的冷冻天然气（约25%）是当场出售的。虽然这种交易也不公开，但普氏使用匿名来源，以普氏日本/韩国指数(JKM)为基础，评估了亚洲现货价格，自去年6月以来，报价, 投标和交易均是公开自愿的。
标普全球普氏的能源价格公司负责人Jonty Rushforth说：“市场已经清楚地表明，它希望以透明的、市场化的方式向欧洲输送的液化天然气价格。鉴于实物市场日益复杂，贸易流量不断变化，因此，让参与者清楚了解液化天然气的价格就变得更加重要。”
一份来自托克7月底向巴塞罗那交付货物的投标显示，价格为每百万英热3.3美元，该贸易公司随后将该价格提高到每百万英热3.45美元。
世界各地新建液化工厂生产的液化天然气激增，加上亚洲需求低迷，促使大量进口产品涌入欧洲，从而压低了欧洲的天然气价格。
一方面，荷兰TTF的月前天然气价格（欧洲天然气和液化天然气价格的基准）从年初起几乎减半，降至每兆瓦小时11.35欧元，相当于每百万英热3.75美元；另一方面，据路透社的评估显示，亚洲现货液化天然气的价格从年初的每百万英热8.75美元下降了一半，到6月初为每百万英热4.30美元左右。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Platts gets first bid for European LNG in its pricing process
Pricing agency Platts received on Thursday its first transparent bid for a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for delivery into Europe, signalling greater openness in pricing LNG globally as well as underscoring the importance of Europe to the LNG trade.
Most LNG is traded on long-term contracts with pricing kept a commercial secret but an increasing portion of the chilled gas, around 25 percent, is being sold on a prompt spot basis.
While such trades are also kept from public view, Platts assesses the Asian spot price with its Japan Korea Marker (JKM) process using anonymous sources and, since last June, offers, bids and trades volunteered openly.
“The market has clearly shown its appetite for a transparent demonstration of the value of LNG delivered into Europe in its own right,” Jonty Rushforth, head of the energy price group at S&P Global Platts, said.
“Given the increasing complexity of the physical market and changing trade flows, it is ever more important for participants to have clarity on the value of LNG,” he said.
The bid came from Trafigura for a cargo for delivery into Barcelona at the end of July for $3.30 per million British thermal units (mmBtu), which the trading house then raised to $3.45 per mmBtu.
A surge in LNG production from new liquefaction plants around the world coupled with lacklustre demand in Asia has prompted an influx of imports into Europe, helping to depress natural gas prices there.
The Dutch TTF month-ahead gas price, a benchmark for European gas and LNG prices, has almost halved from the start of the year to 11.35 euros per megawatt hour, which is the equivalent of $3.75 per mmBtu.
Asian spot LNG prices LNG-AS have halved to around $4.30 per mmBtu this week from $8.75 at the start of the year, Reuters assessments show.
