EU should be careful not to alienate gas suppliers: ex-IEA chief

摘要

European gas demand is more likely to increase rather than fall by 2050, so it is important that the EU sends positive signals to suppliers about its future needs for imports, according to Claude Mandil, a former head of Gaz de France and the International Energy Agency and now the deputy chair of the advisory group on the European Commission-sponsored Energy Roadmap 2050. "The perspectives for 2050 show that gas use will be less, according to the European Commission. But what if time proves this to be wrong?" he said at the 10th Gas Infrastructure Europe conference held in Krakow May 25.