This article studies the likely impact of unconventional gas developments in the U.S. on EU competitiveness. We find …, first of all, little evidence for a prosperous unconventional gas development in Europe. Second, the U.S. boom has already a … strong impact on both world and European energy markets. In particular, lower U.S. gas and coal prices have changed relative …

Due to the increasing European import dependency, significant additional natural gas volumes will be required. In … further gas supplies to the European market. As one of the European Union's energy policies' foci is security of supply, the … case of supply disruptions such as occurred in 2009 during the Russia-Ukraine gas crisis. This paper discusses the impact …

This report contains three separate papers, each addressing selected issues concerning natural gas policy and security … of gas supply in Europe. The over-arching themes are vulnerability (to supply disruptions, to supplier pricing power) and … contains a review of some of the economic effects of, and subsequent policy reactions to, the January 2009 cut of Russian gas …

The Russian-Ukrainian crisis has revitalized the European concerns of supply disruptions of natural gas as experienced …. Nevertheless, several East European countries are highly dependent on Russian natural gas. This paper investigates different … Russian natural gas export disruptions scenarios and analyses short- and long-term reactions to ensure a sufficient supply of …