On no account will Moscow have any arbitrage potential over China when it comes to prospective pipeline gas feeding Beijing and Brussels.
That applies not only to liquid molecules, but pipeline gas as well.
If the proportion of imported pipeline gas falls, so does the pricing power of conventional suppliers, even if the overall volume they supply goes up.
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Its immense shale-gas potential might make it even less willing to pay up, inclining it to depend less on pipeline gas and to take the risk that it can smooth out ebbs and flows through spot markets.
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In December, a natural-gas pipeline to Iran was opened, the first Turkmen gas-export pipeline to bypass Russia.
An international campaign group, the Shwe Gas Movement, has been putting pressure on Myanmar and its investors to compensate those displaced by pipeline, gas terminal and port.
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Since then, the pipeline delivering gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan has been bombed at least 14 times, reducing supplies significantly.
Egyptian forces also confiscated two truckloads of weapons in a town in Sheikh Zuweid, in North Sinai, including rocket-propelled grenades, rockets, hand grenades, machine guns, and explosives similar to the ones used to blow up a pipeline exporting gas to Israel numerous times, the security source said.
An explosion today on the Arab Gas Pipeline forced Egypt to shut off natural gas supplies to Israel and Jordan.
The price of natural gas is influenced by several factors including current and anticipated supply and demand of natural gas, temperature changes, amount of gas stored, pipeline charges for transporting gas, and cost of gas for end users.
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Jordan is normally a heavy importer of Egyptian natural gas, but over the past year the pipeline which supplies gas to both Israel and Jordan has been attacked several times, forcing the country to use more expensive supplies.
China recently completed a 1, 100-mile gas pipeline to connect its factories and power plants to the vast gas reserves of Central Asia, part of China's stiff competition with Europe over a key energy source.
In the case of the Siberian gas pipeline project, Moscow was well aware of the inordinate West European dependency on Soviet natural gas supplies -- ultimately projected to exceed 60% of total European gas consumption -- which would have resulted from the successful completion of both strands of the twin 3, 600-mile pipelines connected to the West European gas grid.
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The gas can be shipped by pipeline to liquefied natural gas terminals and shipped to Asia for attractive returns.
Moscow has had agreements with Beijing to build a gas pipeline into China since 2002, but the two sides have been haggling ever since over the price of the gas supplies.
The contract includes constructing and installing two pipeline bundles and a 6.8 mile gas export pipeline.
It could be another natural-gas pipeline or an electric utility, in the U.S. or outside.
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Fall is when gas pipeline companies build up their stockpiles for the winter heating season.
Washington is concerned about plans for the construction of a gas pipeline from Iran to India.
Traversing their land is a natural gas pipeline, 36 inches in diameter and 6 feet underground.
We've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some.
Some compare the Mistral deal to Nord Stream, a controversial planned Russian-German gas pipeline.
The pipeline allows Siberian gas to flow directly to Germany, via twin pipelines under the Baltic Sea.
Work on a gas pipeline between Iran and Pakistan will begin on 11 March, Pakistani officials say.
Recently, there have also been repeated attacks on the pipeline that exports gas to Israel and Jordan.
Kurdish rebels have claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a natural gas pipeline in eastern Turkey.
Putin promised to expand Russian energy supplies to China by opening a natural gas pipeline within five years.
It would hasten construction of a massive natural gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the lower 48 states.
Pakistan will pursue a gas pipeline deal with Iran despite international pressure, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said.
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