据普氏能源资讯2019年3月27日洛桑报道，总部设在瑞士的全球著名能源交易商贡沃尔（Gunvor）首席执行官T·托恩奎斯特表示，由于全球向清洁燃料转变，贡沃尔正在寻求建立或收购天然气和液化天然气（LNG）资产来保持其在全球LNG独立交易同行中的领先地位。
随着天然气将成为未来几十年增长最快的化石燃料，能源交易商正在构建他们的得到资产支持的交易模型，以便从管道天然气和LNG交易的蓬勃发展中获取价值。
贡沃尔去年在向客户交付了大约1100万吨LNG比2017年大幅增长60%以后成为了全球最大的独立LNG交易商。贡沃尔大约三分之二的LNG是根据中长期合同交付的。
托恩奎斯特是在洛桑接受媒体记者采访时发表上述讲话的。他说：““我认为天然气表现出强劲的增长，也适合向更清洁的能源转型，无论是对空气还是二氧化碳。因此，如果能用天然气取代煤炭，很多事情都将实现，这很有吸引力。天然气是我们商业模式的一部分，我们正在考察当地的一些基础设施。”但他没有透露更多细节。
李峻 编译自 Platts
原文如下：
Gunvor seeks LNG, gas assets to support surging gas trade
Switzerland-based energy trader Gunvor is looking to build or acquire natural gas and LNG assets as part of plans to maintain its lead among independent trading peers in LNG, amid a global shift towards cleaner fuels, CEO Torbjorn Tornqvist said.
With natural gas set to be the fastest growing fossil fuel in the coming decades, energy traders are building out their asset-backed trading models to capture value from booming flows of both piped and LNG gas trade.
Gunvor became the biggest independent LNG trader last year after delivering about 11 million mt, a 60% jump from 2017. Around two-thirds of Gunvor's volumes delivered were under medium- and long-term contracts.
"I think gas shows strong growth and also fits into the transition to something cleaner, both for the air and for CO2. So if you can replace coal with gas a lot of things will be achieved, so that's attractive," Tornqvist said in an interview in Lausanne, Switzerland.
"Natural gas is part of our business model and we are looking at some infrastructure
