GECF summit calls for fair price for gas

摘要

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani opened the first ever summit of major gas exporting nations with a call for serious action to achieve a fair price for gas, saying it was "illogical" to have increasing disparities between oil and gas prices. "Gas exporters should not give up their demand for a fair price of gas that is equivalent to oil and to use all available means to achieve this end," he told heads of state and oil ministers of the 12-member Gas Exporting Countries Forum. However, he did not advocate controlling production in the way that OPEC does for oil. "We are not talking about controlling production, but other means such as upgrading and supporting the technologies that will help to expand the opportunity to use gas and advocating the use of gas at international and regional forums, influencing the laws that support gas exploitation, enacting laws that take into account the environmental advantages of gas, exchange of information on markets and technical and financial aid and promotion of new markets," he said.