A consortium plans to build a natural-gas pipeline from Russia to supply eastern Germany.

一家财团计划修建一条从俄罗斯向德国东部供应天然气的管道。

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BASF is now trying to secure its lines of supply from Russia by a joint project with Gazprom to build a gas pipeline across the Baltic. It also has a share in a west Siberian oilfield.

巴斯夫为了保障原料的供应，正和俄罗斯国家天然气工业公司合作，共同铺设横跨波罗的海的天然气管道，同时在西西伯利亚油田也购买了一定的股份。

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A pipeline planned for west Africa, which will carry gas that is now flared off in oilfields, could stabilise electricity supply in coastal cities.

在西非国家已经筹备好了一项管道计划，该计划将把目前油田到处泄漏的气体燃料输送到西非各个国家，它将对沿海城市的电力供应起到稳定的作用。

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But some analysts question whether Russia will have sufficient reserves to supply the gas pipeline, given the expected decline in its production over the next 20 years and the lack of investment in new fields since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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In other words, the generators were ready to run, but they had no access to natural gas because neither the gas commodity nor the gas pipeline market were open to transact supply or schedule deliveries.

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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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