East Asia is the world's main natural gas importing region, in which China became the world's largest gas importer in 2018. However, China's natural gas imports are subject to a high premium level, which increases the gas import cost and negatively impacts China's energy structure transformation...

The World Natural Gas market is assuming growing importance in the coming years. Looking at past trends, we can see that world wide natural gas use has grown remarkably over the last three decades, registering an annual average growth rate of 2.7%. Before the oil price boom of 1973, not much...