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And some (natural gas) answers are expensive

Posted by Heading Out on July 8, 2008 - 9:00am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: azerbaijan, gazprom, kazakhstan, nabucco, natural gas, russia, trans-caspian pipeline, turkmenistan [list all tags]

When problems start to arise, it is common, and often wise, to focus attention on the issues that the problem starts to generate, and to reduce attention on less obvious other problems. So it is at present, when the rising price of oil, and its consequent impact on gas, and thence more general prices, is showing the vulnerability of the economy to the supply of this critical fuel.

But there is another fuel with an almost equally critical role in some aspects of our daily lives and that is natural gas. And with a growing reliance on Russian supplies and the Russian gas pipelines that also carry gas from places such as Turkmenistan, I think that more attention should be given to a statement made by Alexei Miller, CEO of Gazprom, last Thursday.

Gazprom forecasts that Russian gas prices will reach 500 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic meters by the end of 2008. "If oil prices exceed in the future 250 dollars a barrel, then gas prices will grow to 1,000 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters," Miller said.

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