VOL. XLII

No. 30

26-July-1999

QATAR

Japanese Buyers Exert Downward Pressure In Price Negotiations With LNGSellers

With liquefied natural gas producers in Australia, AbuDhabi, Brunei, Malaysia and Qatar all in market price negotiations with majorJapanese buyers, the downward pressure widely predicted last year has become areality. An inability to agree on new price terms has required all of theseventures to adopt provisional prices at one point or another in the past fiveyears. Such arrangements...