EDF LNG Gains,Gazprom Losses

摘要

Last week France's EDF took over Qatar Petroleum's(QP)and Exxon Mobil's LNG receiving capacity in Belgium,plus accompanying rights to some LNG imports from RasGas(WGI Jul.4,p5).This week,EDF is the subject of so-far-unconfirmed reports that it will buy Belgian gas incumbent Distrigas - the only other company with a RasGas import contract into Zeebrugge - from Suez as part of a deal clearing the way for Gaz de France's(GDF)merger with Suez.