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Lecture 2 on the European Natural Gas Market. Auke Lont Member of Supervisory Board Gasunie. World Energy Demand. Source: World Energy Outlook 2007 IEA. Source: World Energy Outlook 2007 IEA. European gas supply. Future European gas supply creating concerns.
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Lecture 2 on the European Natural Gas Market Auke Lont Member of Supervisory Board Gasunie
World Energy Demand Source: World Energy Outlook 2007 IEA
Future European gas supply creating concerns Security of supply - price of energy - environment
Gullfaks Statfjord Troll Frigg Kollsnes Helsinki Oseberg Heimdal Oslo Kårsto St. Petersburg Sleipner Stockholm Stavanger Ekofisk Tyra Copenhagen Dublin Minsk Berlin Emden Isle of Grain Warsaw London Essen Zee- Brussels Prague brugge Bratislava Paris Montoir Vienna Bern Budapest Lyon Ljubljana Bucharest Rovigo La Spezia El Ferrol Belgrade Fos-sur-Mer Krk Bilbao Sofia Barcelona Madrid Rome Lisbon Marmara Valencia Sines Brindisi Ereglisi Cordoba Huelva Athens Cartagena Izmir Tunis Algiers Britpipe Baltic Pipe BBL Existing U/C & planned Speculative GALSI MEDGAZ Green Stream
Natural gas demand depends strongly on weather winter Load Duration Curve NW-Europe winter summer demand Gasvraag 2250 Peak supply Baseload Baseload Seasonal Storages Working gas volume MCM/dag Demand profile Supply Production Groningen 750 1 365 Gas day Demand ’05 (BCM) Swingratio ’95-’04 Belgium Denemark France Germany Netherlands United Kingdom 29% 36% 47% 36% 34% 34% 17.6 5.5 48.0 93.0 43.0 93.0
Pricing of natural gas • Market value principle – interfuel competition • ’fixed in volume, flexible in price’ • High investment cost pr unit of transportation • Take or pay contracts as basis for development of markets – ’long term marriage’ • Suppliers investing in platforms and transmission pipelines • Gas companies investing in distribution lines and storage • Gas-to-gas competition
Future of European gas • EU deregulation and 2020 agenda • Unbundling • Carbon price • Security of supply • renewables • Industry consolidation • New pipelines • Nordstream • Southstream • Nabucco • LNG • CCS (carbon capture and storage)
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