DP wrote:http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2868822
уже боятся...
Россию с Ираном бояться - газом не топить
А вообше подход как всегда вполне прагматичный
WSJ wrote:Fragmented Market Would Hamper
A Russian-Iranian 'Gas OPEC'
By MICHAEL CONNOLLY
February 2, 2007
A 2001 effort to create an organization of gas exporters, the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, which included Russia, Iran and Qatar, fizzled out, so talk in the past two days by Russia and Iran about establishing what President Vladimir Putin called "a gas OPEC" has met with skepticism from some energy experts. Still, the fact that Russia and Iran are the world's biggest two holders of gas reserves has certainly caused the comments to generate some alarm among gas consumers, particularly in Europe, which gets a quarter of its gas from Russia.
However, forming an OPEC-like cartel for gas would be tricky, as Russell Gold and Gregory White report. While oil is traded in a global marketplace, gas is bought and sold in fragmented markets, making it more complicated to direct production and pricing. The U.S., for instance, gets most of its gas from domestic sources as well as Trinidad and Tobago. Europe gets most of its gas from the North Sea and Russia as well as from exporters in North Africa and the Middle East. A world market for liquefied natural gas -- in which gas is cooled to liquid form, placed aboard tankers and shipped to overseas markets -- is nascent.
Earlier this week, Qatari Oil Minister Hamad al-Attiya said on television that he thought it would be difficult to form a gas producers' organization, but didn't rule it out. He pointed out that most gas-supply contracts are typically long term because of LNG'S up-front production costs, extending more than 20 years. That would undercut any concerted effort to make short-term adjustments to production or otherwise influence prices.
