Pakistan Buys Spot LNG Shipment for First Time in Over a Year

  • Vitol to supply Pakistan with cargo at premium to spot price
  • The move will help ease the nation’s winter gas shortage

A floating storage regasification unit receives liquefied natural gas at an LNG Terminal in Karachi, Pakistan.

Photographer: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg
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Pakistan purchased a liquefied natural gas shipment from the spot market for the first time in more than a year, a move that will ease a winter energy shortage.

Pakistan LNG Ltd. procured a single cargo for December delivery from Vitol SA at roughly a 13% premiumBloomberg Terminal to current spot prices, according to traders with knowledge of the information. Pakistan was seeking as many as two cargoes in a tender that closed earlier on Wednesday.