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SER-2 [02] Memo on the Security and Solidarity Action Plan

Posted by Luis de Sousa on January 15, 2009 - 2:43am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: energy policy, eu, europe, lng, market liberalization, original, russia gas exports, ser-2 [list all tags]

In the second installment of this series analysing the Second Strategic Energy Review (SER-2) by the European Commission, the focus is on to the Memo entitled “EU Energy Security and Solidarity Action Plan”.

This Action Plan is one of the new concepts brought about by SER-2 and marks a visible turn of the Commission's understanding of the European Energy system. Whereas during the first years of its term the Commission relegated Energy Security to second plan, expecting it to magically emerge as consequence of the internal market liberalization and deregulation, now it takes a front seat role in the Commission's Energy Policy.

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European Gas Security: The Future of Natural Gas

Posted by Euan Mearns on May 13, 2008 - 10:00am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: aspo, berr, european gas security, gas markets, italy, lng, nord-stream, norway, russia gas exports [list all tags]


This is the talk I was honored to deliver to ASPO Italy on 3rd May 2008 at their annual conference in Turin. 24 slides below the fold plus narrative of what I said on the day. The narrative boxes are below the slides.

An Italian translation of this post is available here. Thanks to Maurizio Moretto for the translation. Thanks are also due to Jean Laherrere of ASPO France for providing his interpretations of Russian and North African gas supplies.

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