Journal
JOURNAL OF NATURAL GAS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 33, Issue -, Pages 769-776Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2016.06.022
Keywords
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade; Competition pattern; Complex network theory; International trade
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- China Geological Survey [1212011220843]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71173199]
- open project of Key Laboratory of Carrying Capacity Assessment for Resource and the Environment, Ministry of Land and Resources [CCA2016.01]
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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been categorized as a global commodity because of the continuous globalization of the LNG trade, and there is very close competition between LNG exporters worldwide. However, the overall competition structure and degree of the global LNG trade system were not well portrayed or quantified in the existing literature. This paper examined the trade competition pattern of the global LNG trade by building LNG trade competition networks (LTCN) from 2005 to 2014. Overall, the competitive relationship growth and competitive globalization features of the LNG trade were analyzed, and the main LNG exporter group and its evolution were studied. Moreover, the market competitiveness of LNG exporters was measured, and accordingly, these exporters were divided into three categories to depict their different development prospects, which would form a more complicated competition pattern of LNG trade in the future. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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