出版社:Research Centre for East European Studies and the Center for Security Studies
摘要:The Russian government’s efforts to liberalise the domestic gas market, and specifically to raise gas prices to levels comparable to those in Europe, will be a decisive factor in the country’s energy sector over the next 5–10 years. Already, Ukrainian prices are close to “European netback” (i.e. European border prices minus export duties and transport costs)—and although Russian prices lag behind, sales across the former Soviet Union have become much more important to Gazprom, Russia’s dominant, state-controlled gas company, than they were during the oil boom of 2002–08. In the domestic market, Novatek (Russia’s no. 2 gas company after Gazprom) and the oil producers now account for one quarter of sales, and are giving weighty political support to liberalisation.