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Okay, that makes sense.

Do people in these situations try to come up with on-demand storage at all, or is that not reasonable given the difficulty of storing natural gas?

Like, could you try and load up your idle fleet of containers (truck, ship) on the cheap or are we past that now, hence the negative price?



Any reasonably-sized storage has already been contracted out in advance, and improvising additional storage capacity isn't really viable given the amounts of gas we're talking about and the environmental laws storage has to comply with.

However, what has happened in the past for oil is tanker ships anchoring with a full load just offshore until they can sell the load for a good price. I don't know whether that's also feasible for LNG though, given the boiloff concerns.


Yeah that's what I was thinking, but also using trucks that are for short-term transport as longer term storage could be possible to make a quick buck, but I bet anyone that can do that is doing that heh (or can't if it's not feasible technically).




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