A Brent crude drop to around $80, expected in the next year or two, could decrease prices for countries looking to import LNG, according to Fereidun Fesharaki, chairman of Facts Global Energy, an affiliate of the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

“Everything about LNG actually depends on the price of oil,” Fesharaki told an audience at LNG 17 in Houston on Thursday.

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