歐盟能源委員會支持區域天然氣協同發展

European Union (EU) member states facing an emergency gas shortage could call on other member states to supply them with gas under a draft law enshrining a “regional solidarity mechanism”.A meeting of the EU parliamentary industry, research and energy, chaired by Jerzy Buzek, amended and approved a draft law October 13. It envisages a European Union comprising seven regions.Every country is supposed to have back-up in place – such as storage, fuel switching– in order to be able to manage for a certain period after the failure of gas supplies from its chief source of gas, under the EU N-1 rule. Security has been high on the EU’s list of priorities following interruptions in Russian gas supplies across Ukraine. At the moment though there is an abundance of cheap gas, there is a lot of idle LNG import capacity, and interconnecting pipelines are being built.