Article: Market arbitrage: European and North American natural gas prices.(Industry overview)

1. INTRODUCTION

For many years, pipelines were the primary means for moving natural gas, and natural gas prices were, by and large, determined in the prevailing continental markets. The development of an international market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the resulting opportunities for intercontinental arbitrage are seen as creating a world in which movements in natural gas prices are linked between continents. Neumann (2009) finds that shipments of LNG across the Atlantic have enabled some co-movement in natural gas prices between European and North American markets. Increased flows of LNG into the United States and the potential sensitivity of these ...

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