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Sort Desciption: THE NEW SECURITY ENVIRONMENT FOR EUROPEAN GAS: WORSENING GEOPOLITICS AND INCREASING GLOBAL COMPETITION FOR LNG Jonathan Stern Oxford Institute for Energy Studies NG 15 October 2006
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THE NEW SECURITY ENVIRONMENT FOR EUROPEAN
GAS: WORSENING GEOPOLITICS AND INCREASING
GLOBAL COMPETITION FOR LNG
Jonathan Stern
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
NG 15
October 2006
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1-901795-52-7
978-1-901795-52-3
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CONTENTS
1. Introduction: a new security environment
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2. Declining European production and rising import dependence
2
3. Russian Gas after the Ukraine crisis
3
4. Middle East, North African and West African gas supplies:
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huge potential, difficult politics
4.1 West African Suppliers 11
5. A worsening geopolitical environment for European gas supplies
12
5.1 Russia and CIS countries ...