Gas Matters - Full February 2012 Digital Issue
Germany’s energy policy: Has gas missed the boat?
The UK’s power capacity market proposals: an incentive for gas investments?
Gas in the new Libya – first stabilise the politics
Novatek: Siberian success sustained by state support?
Qatar’s gas supply role: shifting focus from global to local


Gas demand on a temperature corrected basis in Europe is estimated to fall by around 10% this year, a drop unprecedented in the history of the industry, and recovery is likely to be slow, according to Jonathan Stern, director of Gas Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
Italy-based ERG has said that planned start-up of its PrioloLNG project which it is jointly developing with Shell has been delayed by a year and is now expected to come onstream in 2014
Qatargas and RasGas could between them increase LNG capacity by 12 mtpa beyond the 77 mtpa already under development through debottlenecking the six mega-trains currently coming on stream.
The global recession is likely to cut energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 3% this year, giving governments some breathing space to push through a post-Kyoto framework, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday, although it warns that urgent action is still needed to address greenhouse gas emissions.