Gazprom Explains Its European Pricing View

摘要

Despite reduced Russian gas imports by its key European consumers through the past two years ?continuing into 2011 in some cases ?Gazprom remains publicly committed to keeping the long-term, take-or-pay terms in its European contracts. At the same time, though, the Russian company is weighing the options for increasing its business in the promising Asia-Pacific region, given a 10% drop in exports to Europe in 2010, to 107.9 billion cubic meters (10.4 billion cubic feet per day).