Infrastructures for natural gas: The challenges of internationalization

Infrastructures for natural gas: The challenges of internationalization

Correlje, A.F.
De Jong, J.

Technology, Policy and Management

Infrastructures, Systems and Services

2009-05-31

The European natural gas infrastructure is facing the challenge of adapting itself to an increasingly international pattern of supply and demand, while the coordination of transactions is getting more and more complex. New patterns of trade are evolving, reflecting the consequences of the gradual development of an intra-European gas market. Developments on the demand and supply side, suggest a need for significant investments in pipelines, supplying gas from far away, but also in the midstream infrastructure interconnecting countries and connecting facilities like liquefied natural gas terminals and underground storage facilities to the existing networks. A (potential) lack of transmission capacity into and between the several consuming regions will dampen competition, causing higher gas prices and reducing the security of supply. This chapter aims contributing to an informed discussion about regulatory approaches that go beyond the notion of just a imposing liberalized market.

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Delft University of Technology

Internationalization of Infrastructures: Proceedings of the 21th Annual International Conference on the Economics of Infrastructures, Delft, The Netherlands, May 2009

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(c) 2009 Correlje, A.F.
De Jong, J.