What Governments Need to Know About Cross-Border Gas Projects
Article from: OGEL 4 (2006), in Pipelines
Introduction
Governments, especially politicians, just do not get it: gas markets are not commodity markets like oil markets. If gas markets are to work, they require proactive facilitation by governments in collaboration with investors. A study on cross-border gas projects carried out in 2004 for the APEC Energy Working Group identified a lack of shared vision amongst gas exporting and importing economies as a major barrier.[1] This is very much in evidence today. An anticipated doubling of the global gas market every 25 years, combined with a disparity in the locations of ...