Anyone near the oil patch has watched the dramatic recent fall in crude prices. Even at $70 a barrel, far higher than where oil prices are today, many people began asking if U.S. LNG export projects were doomed. After all, aren’t LNG prices set against the benchmark of oil prices? Not so fast.

LNG sold internationally has traditionally been linked to oil, and oil prices have traditionally been linked to gas, but the oil and gas pricing indices have long been de-linking. And U.S. LNG is not even priced on oil, but the Henry Hub gas index.

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