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U.S. low-price gas deal shifts landscape for LNG

The Vancover Sun -- VICTORIA/CALGARY — British Columbia’s first major liquefied natural gas export terminal is facing a significant new challenge after a rival U.S. exporter signed a deal undercutting the hoped-for price for selling gas into Asian markets.

David Calvert, an Apache Corp. vice-president and manager of the Kitimat LNG terminal said U.S.-based Cheniere Energy Inc. set a dangerous precedent by agreeing to sell gas from its proposed Louisiana export terminal based on heavily discounted North American gas prices.

“Cheniere did a deal ... that created quite a ripple through the marketplace,” Calvert said Tuesday, adding the deal has created “unrealistic” expectations for products from Kitimat LNG.

Speaking to an Energy Roundtable audience in Calgary on Tuesday, Calvert said the Kitimat site

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Interesting article Aservant...thanks for posting!
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Competition bringing lower prices.
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why to go Cheniere, Now make it happen and still make money.
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Finally, a US company undercutting someone else instead of the other way around.
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why sell to other countries.
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Why send fuel across the globe?
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Maybe!
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only time will tell
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Sure Japan paid $17 for LNG last July, but they were still recovering from a shut down of nuclear power plants following earthquakes. Whats the current Asian price?
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Not good news for our new export terminal.
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for how long ?
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Time will tell the truth of this...
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We need to keep the fuel here.
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The price of LNG is not as low as the government wants you to think.
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Put an export tax on LNG - keep it here and convert our cars to run on it. Stop exporting cheap energy that is relatively clean!
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really now...
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If they sell it too cheap, Cheniere will go bankrupt.
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Not a good thing.
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WOW, something to think about.
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Sounds like a knife fight in a pitch black room.
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Again.
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We better not hurt ourselves in the process of selling our resources overseas.
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its called business...the one who can offer the best price and service wins. stop whining.
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fuel should not be exported to the other side of the world!!
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Another case of OUR precious fossil fuels being sent to CHINA!!!!!!
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LNG may have a lot of upside but where do I fill up?
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Go LNG!
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It failed in the eighties, better luck this time around.
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go ng
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LNG is the fuel of the future.
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so now they are having CNG wars.
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How can we become dependent like canada?
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a new speculation source....
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The price we pay for it will go up so they can subsidize Asia
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