Top Indian Gas Utility Pushes Gazprom for LNG Price Cut

  • GAIL also seeks changes to contract duration, supply source
  • LNG consumers have options amid a buyers’ market: Pradhan
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India’s biggest gas utility is seeking a price cut and other changes to a 20-year liquefied natural gas supply contract from Gazprom PJSC, the latest in a series of concessions sought by buyers amid a global gas glut.

GAIL India Ltd. is pushing to overhaul the 2.5 million ton a year contract with the Russian gas giant that starts in 2018, B.C. Tripathi, chairman of the Indian state-run company, said in an interview in New Delhi. The company also plans to charter four to five LNG vessels on short-term contract as it prepares to receive U.S. LNG supplies.