European Energy Policy

Recent Trends in the World Gas Market: Economical, Geopolitical and Environmental Aspects

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February 12, 2018

Natural gas is considered by energy experts to be the most promising fossil fuel for the 21st century, and as a matter of fact, the International Energy Agency (IEA) introduced for the first time in the 2011 World Energy Outlook a high gas use scenar

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