Gazprom's Ambitions Untamed

摘要

The last couple of years may have squeezed Gazprom's pocketbook and earnings potential, but they haven't dented its ambitions.Over the last two weeks the Russian state company has unveiled both its intention to set a new 21st century production high by 2013 and a deal involving Sempra's Cameron LNG terminal on the US Gulf Coast that again signals to Qatar and others Gazprom's determination to be a global, not a regional gas market player (WGI Apr.21,p1).