Centrum Analiz Spoleczno-Ekonomicznych Think Tank Niezalezny Instytut Badawczy Ekonomia stosowana Miedzynarodowe projekty badawcze i doradcze Publikacje i konferencje
Sienkiewicza 12, 00-010 Warsaw, Poland
tel.: +48 226226627
fax: (+48 22) 828 60 69
case@case-research.eu
 Site map
Search 




Events

CALL FOR PAPERS - 7th EUROFRAME Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union:
After the crisis: Exit strategies for EU economies in a globalised world



Latest Publications

CASE Network E-Brief 03/2010: The price of delay: the future of Russian and Ukrainian pension systems

CASE Network E-Breif 02/2010:
Tax wedge, labor market and the shadow economy

CASE Networks Studies and Analyses No. 400:
Energy Security in the EU and Beyond   

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 399:
Agriculture Income Assessment for the Purpose of Social Assistance: the Case of Ukraine    

CASE Network E-briefs No. 01/2010:
The global recession and energy markets

CASE Network Report No. 90:
Social Security, Labour Market and Restructuring: Current Situation and Expected Outcomes of Reforms

CASE Network E-briefs 12/2009:
From fiscal stimulus to fiscal crisis

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 398:
Social Security Driven Tax Wedge and Its Effects On Employment and Shadow Employment

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 397:
Restructuring and Social Safety Nets in Russia and Ukraine - Socail Security Influence on Labor Mobility: Possible Opportunities and Challenges

CASE Network Report No. 89:
Economic Integration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 396:
Energy security, poverty and vulnerability in Central Asia and the wider European neighborhood

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 395:
The East European financial crisis

CASE Network E-briefs No.11/2009:
No, the central banks didn't do it

CASE Network Reports
No. 88

Deep Integrations with the EU and its Likely Impact on Selected ENP countries and Russia

PEO 3/2009
Large Fiscal Deficit in Poland - curse #1

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 394
Differentiation of Innovation Behavior of Manufacturing Firms in the New Member States. Cluster Analysis on Firm-Level Data


e-Newsletter



Last update
2009-12-17


CASE Network Studies and Analyses
No. 400   Energy Security in the EU and Beyond
Author: Richard Pomfret
Series: CASE Network Studies and Analyses
Year of issue: 2010
Past episodes of energy insecurity have been fleeting and the fears have been assuaged by market forces or technical change. This paper analyses the nature of the EU's current energy security problems, emphasising the increased importance of natural gas and high level of dependence on Russian supplies through a small number of pipelines. Building alternative pipeline routes is expensive and with finite reserves in any gas field pipelines may be mutually exclusive; especially since China has entered the market for Central Asian gas, new non-Russian pipelines to the EU may not be economically feasible. However, global gas reserves are large, and high energy prices in the 2000s encouraged investment in alternative delivery modes, notable liquefied natural gas (LNG). As a spot market for LNG emerges EU energy-importing countries may face volatile prices, but will not be exposed to insecurity of supply.
Keywords: energy markets, natural gas - pipelines - energy security
Files: [download file] [download file]

 previous



Home page | About CASE | Projects | Events | Publications | Work with CASE