Energy institutional and organisational changes in EU and Russia: Revisiting gas relations

Sadek Boussena () and Catherine Locatelli ()
Additional contact information
Sadek Boussena: équipe EDDEN - PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Catherine Locatelli: équipe EDDEN - PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This article tries to shed light on why gas relations between the EU and Russia, which were previously stable, have deteriorated since the introduction of institutional changes in the two regions. After identifying the areas of divergence in the context of European gas market liberalization, we then attempt to examine them in the context of the differing approaches to structuring this sector. The model of vertically unbundled network industries promoted by the EU is no longer the one that Russia intends to implement in its gas sector, despite the big changes taking place in its domestic market. All this is happening in a context where the economic stakes are very high. For the EU and its gas companies, access to Russia's hydrocarbon resources is a key question. For Gazprom, the question is whether or not it can define strategies that are flexible enough to adapt to the changing conditions in the European gas market.

Keywords: Russia; European Union; gas industry; Russie; Union européenne; industrie gazière (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cis, nep-ene and nep-tra
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00785127v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (18)

Published in Energy Policy, 2013, 55, pp.180-189. ⟨10.1016/j.enpol.2012.11.052⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00785127v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00785127

DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.11.052

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().