Industry officials said GDLNG will be more flexible in its policy to allow companies with minority stakes in the terminal to import LNG under a terminal use agreement.

In the past, GDLNG only allowed its largest shareholder, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), to import cargoes over and above the 3.7 million tonnes per annum that GDLNG imports from Australia.

At its peak CNOOC imported up to 2.8