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 20 major gas companies, state-owned and private, from Europe, the United States and the Mediterranean Basin, namely:
BOTAS Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (Turkey) – EDF (France) – Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) (Egypt) – Eni Gas and Power (Italy) – ESSENT N.V. (The Netherlands) – GasNatural Fenosa (Spain) – GasTerra (The Netherlands) – GAZPROM (Russia) – GDFSUEZ (France) – GEOPLIN (Slovenia) – INA (Croatia) – MOL/FGSZ Ltd (Hungary) – Moldovagaz (Moldova) – NJSC NAFTOGAZ/UKRTRANSGAS AC (Ukraine) – OMV Gas & Power GmbH(Austria) – POLISH OIL AND GAS COMPANY (Poland) – PLINACRO (Croatia) -ROMGAZ (Romania) – SOCAR (Azerbaijan) – SONATRACH (Algeria) – PE SRBIJAGAS (Serbia) – STEG (Tunisia) – SWISSGAS (Switzerland)