Structural changes in the European gas industry: causes and consequences

Patrick Heren

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 2001, vol. 16, issue 4, 272-286

Abstract: The imposition of third party access to pipelines under the terms of the European Union's Gas Directive will lead to a radical restructuring of the European natural gas industry (the Directive is summarised in an appendix to the paper). State involvement in the industry will be reduced to a regulatory role. The speed of change will vary from country to country, but will gather pace as the inevitable development of short term gas trading undermines the system of long-term take-or-pay contracts on which the industry has been based since its inception.

Keywords: natural gas; spot markets; take-or-pay; liberalisation; privatisation; third party access; restructuring; Groningen. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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