With natural gas markets, especially LNG becoming increasingly globalized, a niche has opened up for service providers in the LNG industry that can offer solutions that include access to liquidity and markets, risk management, and credit and risk intermediation. Entities such as Barclays Capital LNG services aim to bring risk management expertise in liquid wholesale energy markets. Barclays Capital LNG Services will also provide entities such as Excelerate with fixed priced hedging mechanisms, allowing Excelerate to optimize pricing for natural gas buyers. Additional tailored solutions include taking physical delivery, transport and optimization of cargoes through profit sharing between the parties as well as access to liquidity and markets, risk management and credit and risk intermediation