VOL. XLV

No 37

16-September-2002

ALGERIA

Gas Forum Roundtable StressesNeed To Retain Long-Term Gas Contracts

Delegatesto a roundtable discussion on issues surrounding the evolving European gasmarket agreed that long-term gas contracts must be retained in order to assure securityof supply and attract the substantial capital investment required to build gassupply capacity in producing nations. In his closing remarks to the New Framework for European Gas Markets meetingon 7 September in Algiers,...