Gas Centre

What is the Gas Centre

A Gas Centre dedicated to economies in transition

The UNECE Gas Centre was launched in 1994 as a technical cooperation programme
“Promotion and Development of a Market-Based Gas Industry in Economies in Transition -
the Gas Centre”. It was established to assist governments and gas companies in central and eastern Europe in their efforts to create more decentralized and market-based gas industries.
Today, in addition to contributing to institutional capacity development and training for the benefit of economies in transition, the Gas Centre activities are focussed on:

Exchange of information and data between the member companies on the gas markets and gas industry and especially between member companies with experience in free-market conditions and companies in countries with an economy in transition;
Exchange of information and views between the gas industry, the ECE and goverment on policy issues
Serving as a platform for discussions on topics of interest and policy development ;

The programme is extra-budgetary and financed by some 25 major gas companies, state-owned and private, from Europe, the United States and the Mediterranean Basin, namely:

BOTAS Petroleum Pipeline Corporation - Delta - Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company - Eni Gas and Power - Essent N.V. - Gasunie - Gazprom -GdfSuez - Geoplin - Latvijas Gaze - MOL Gas Transmission Company - Moldovagaz - Naftogaz of Ukraine - National Grid - ÖMV Gas GmbH - PGNiG - Plinacro - Romgaz - Shell Energy Europe - Sonatrach - SPP - Srbijagas - StatoilHydro - STEG - Swissgas - Wintershall