Helping a Power Company Enter the Global Liquefied Natural Gas Market
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January 12, 2026
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A power company in Southeast Asia faced declining domestic gas supplies as demand for power generation grew. To ensure energy security at a competitive cost and enable the coal-to-gas transition, the company hired FTI Consulting to assess the feasibility of becoming the sole liquefied natural gas (‘LNG’) aggregator for a national power sector and to design a roadmap for execution.
Our Impact:
- The roadmap enables the company to gradually build up the capabilities, organization, technology and processes to secure up to 12 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas imports per year by 2032, while ensuring security of supply and affordability.
- New pricing and market structures ensured the benefit of domestic gas was shared across power plants while avoiding market distortions, aligning with international precedents.
- FTI Consulting’s LNG procurement strategy balanced long-term security of supply with short-term flexibility, and shortlisted seven LNG suppliers, prioritized based on their commercial attractiveness and strategic fit with the company, thereby de-risking LNG procurement.
Our Role:
- FTI Consulting evaluated the company’s potential new role as the LNG aggregator for the power sector, structuring our analysis around the four core aggregator activities: selling gas, accessing infrastructure, buying LNG and running operations.
- Our experts assessed potential pricing frameworks for gas sales to the power sector and recommended a system that shares the benefits of cheaper domestic gas fairly, while maintaining transparent and consistent prices.
- We assessed the need for new regasification capacity and the regulatory barriers and uncertainties of using regasification terminals and the onshore gas transmission network to import LNG and deliver gas to power plants. We proposed improvements to rules and access that would enhance transparency, increase efficiency and improve regasification terminals’ utilization.
- The team designed an LNG procurement strategy to ensure energy security at a competitive price, detailing how to buy LNG — balancing short- and long-term contracts, identifying the most relevant suppliers and recommending commercial purchase terms that provide flexibility and fair pricing.
Published
January 12, 2026
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