The Eastern European Gas Market Outlook 2006

Country profiles of supply, demand, regulation and infrastructure

Publication Date	June 2006
Publisher	Business Insights
Product Type	Report
Pages	116
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	RBI00068

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Summary

Liberalization and market reform have long been key themes in the European energy sector with the creation of a single European energy market high on the agenda of the European Union for many years; the first steps towards this process took place in the early 1990s with the passing of Directive 90/377/EC, which aimed to make gas and power prices more transparent. This was followed by Directives 91/296/EEC and 90/547/EEC which were aimed at making trading energy between different European Union members more efficient. Liberalization began in earnest in late 1996 when the EU passed the electricity directive (Directive 96/92/EC) setting out common rules for power production, transmission and distribution throughout the EU. The directive also legislated for gradual market opening with a target of 33% of all power markets meant to be opened to competition by February 2003. The electricity directive was followed in June 1998 by the passing of the first gas directive (Directive 98/30/EC), which came into legal force on 10th August 1998 and was meant to have been adopted into the national legislation of all member states within 2 years. The directive established common rules for the operation of gas markets as well as outlining a market opening schedule. Under the terms of the directive, consumers of more than 25 mcm per year and all gas fired power stations were immediately able to choose their supplier, whilst phase 2 set a 28% market opening target by mid 2003 and 33% by mid 2008. At the time the first directive was criticized, mainly by gas consumers, who described it as toothless and lacking in substance for having what they saw as a slow and undemanding market opening schedule.

Content

European regional overview
Regulatory climate
Market development
Chapter 2 Bulgaria
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
Chapter 3 Croatia
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
Chapter 4 Czech Republic
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
Chapter 5 Estonia
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
Chapter 6 Hungary
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
- Pipelines
- Storage
Chapter 7 Latvia
- Market summary
- Supply and Demand Balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
- Pipelines
- Storage
Chapter 8 Lithuania
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
- Pipelines
Chapter 9 Poland
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
- Pipelines
Chapter 10 Romania
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
Chapter 11 Russia
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Industry restructuring
- Competitive intensity
- Market framework factors
- Supplier push factors
- Customer pull factors
- Wholesale trading
- Infrastructure
- Upstream
- Unified Gas Supply System
- Export infrastructure
Chapter 12 Slovakia
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
- Pipelines
- Storage
Chapter 13 Slovenia
- Market summary
- Supply and demand balance
- Supply overview
- Demand overview
- Regulatory structure
- Infrastructure
- Pipelines
- Appendix
- Data sources
- Data Adjustments
- Definitions
List of Figures
- Figure 0.1: Gas Penetration Vs. Absolute Demand
- Figure 2.2: Bulgaria, Historical Demand
- Figure 2.3: Bulgaria, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 2.4: Bulgaria, Gas Grid
- Figure 3.5: Croatia, Gas Production
- Figure 3.6: Croatia, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 3.7: Croatia, Historical Demand
- Figure 3.8: Croatia, Gas Grid
- Figure 4.9: Czech Republic, Import Sources
- Figure 4.10: Czech Republic, Gas Production
- Figure 4.11: Czech Republic, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 4.12: Czech Republic, Historical Sectoral Consumption
- Figure 4.13: Czech Republic, Czech Republic Distribution Grid
- Figure 5.14: Estonia, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 5.15: Estonia, Gas Distribution Grid
- Figure 6.16: Hungary, Gas Production
- Figure 6.17: Hungary, Imports By Source
- Figure 6.18: Hungary, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 6.19: Hungary, Historical Sectoral Demand
- Figure 7.20: Latvia, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 8.21: Lithuania, Sectoral Demand,
- Figure 9.22: Poland, Gas Production
- Figure 9.23: Poland, Imports By Source
- Figure 9.24: Poland, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 9.25: Poland, Historical Sectoral Demand
- Figure 9.26: Poland, Gas Transmission System
- Figure 10.32: Romania, Gas Production
- Figure 10.33: Romania, Imports By Source
- Figure 10.34: Romania, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 10.35: Romania, Historical Sectoral Demand
- Figure 11.36: Russia, Gas Production
- Figure 11.37: Russia, Gas production by producer type
- Figure 11.38: Russia, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 11.39: Russia - The future of Gazprom
- Figure 11.40: Russia, gas market competitive intensity 2005-08
- Figure 11.41: Russia, Gas reserves
- Figure 11.42: Russia, Main existing and planned export pipelines
- Figure 12.43: Slovakia, Gas Production
- Figure 12.44: Slovakia, Imports By Source
- Figure 12.45: Slovakia, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 12.46: Slovakia, Historical Sectoral Demand
- Figure 12.47: Slovakia, Gas Grid
- Figure 13.48: Slovenia, Imports By Source
- Figure 13.49: Slovenia, Sectoral Demand
- Figure 13.50: Slovenia, Gas Grid
List of Tables
- Table 2.1: Bulgaria, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 3.2: Croatia, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 4.3: Czech Republic, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 4.4: Czech Republic, Storage Sites
- Table 5.5: Estonia, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 6.6: Hungary, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 6.7: Hungary, Storage Sites
- Table 7.8: Latvia, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 8.9: Lithuania, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 9.10: Poland, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 10.12: Romania, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 11.13: Russia, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 11.14: Russia, Age of high-pressure pipelines, 2004
- Table 12.15: Slovakia, Supply and Demand Balance
- Table 12.16: Slovakia, Storage Sites
- Table 13.17: Slovenia, Supply and Demand Balance