Russia: quale la forza reale del network di gasdotti?
14/8/2007Analisi di Sergei Blagov su Eurasia Daily Monitor. Uno dei problemi maggiori per l’Europa occidentale è che il sistema di reti su cui si basa Gazprom necessita maggiori investimenti. Tuttavia, la struttura del potere politico-economico alla base del colosso russo rende difficili i miglioramenti necessari.
[…]Gazprom appears to remain reluctant to allow independent players into its pipeline fiefdom, despite efforts by some government officials, notably the Economic Development and Trade Ministry. The Russian RBK Daily quoted anonymous Gazprom sources as saying that the gas monopoly would allow independent gas producers to invest no more than 25% of the funds needed to build new gas pipelines. Meanwhile, such capital would not guarantee any gas transit privileges for these investors anyway, the sources said (RBK Daily, July 6).
Simultaneously, Gazprom is watching for potential market openings that do not require building new pipelines. On June 14 Ananenkov pledged to develop infrastructure to expand into liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets, aiming to deliver Russian gas to markets currently inaccessible by pipelines. Russia’s UGSS would eventually include LNG capacities, he said.
Russian gas policies continue to evolve around the nexus of the country’s ageing pipelines. Therefore, Moscow’s ambitious export-oriented gas pipeline projects would remain largely dependent on the existing pipeline network, at least until the emergence of the country’s LNG industry.
