VOL. XLV

No 6

11-February-2002

ALGERIA/GAS

Gas ExportingCountries Forum Builds Cooperative Role

MEESMarkets/Iran Editor David Knott reports from Algiers:

TheGas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) held its second ministerial meeting inAlgiers, 1-2 February, studying the opportunities for supplying expected rapidgrowth in global gas demand. As at the first meeting in Tehran last year,ministers were keen to emphasize that GECF is intended to be a venue forcooperation and coordination, initially between...