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Kyodo reported on February 26, according to platts, the international energy agency (IEA) said in a report published in 26, Asia will become the second only to North America 2015 years ago the world second largest natural gas market, natural gas demand will increase to 790 billion cubic meters. Experts said Asian natural gas users are calling for increased natural gas pricing flexibility, but want to for liquefied natural gas pricing, really want to set up trading center is in China or Japan.
According to the report, the international energy agency (IEA), executive director, maria van der Hoeven (Mariavander Hoeven) recently said, "gas in Asia in the future what position, how much will depend on natural gas pricing with the fundamentals of supply and demand in the region." The agency published a report also stressed the importance of create natural gas trading centre in Asia, but the report also points out that creating such a center faces many challenges.
The international energy agency, points out that the face of obstacles including, lack of terminal station, such as natural gas infrastructure, a lack of supply, natural gas market regulated, and added that Singapore will become the leading candidates for natural gas trading centre in Asia.
But some liquefied natural gas (LNG) buyers believe that Singapore market itself is too small, not enough to support its serve throughout the Asian region. Oxford Jonathan Stern, head of energy research institute of natural gas (Jonathan Stern) argued that "Asian want pricing for liquefied natural gas (LNG), the real hope is to set up in China or Japan trading center".