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 20 major gas companies, state-owned and private, from Europe, the United States and the Mediterranean Basin, namely:

BOTAS Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (Turkey) - Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) (Egypt) - Eni Gas and Power (Italy) - ESSENT N.V. (The Netherlands) - GASUNIE (The Netherlands) - GasTerra (The Netherlands) - GAZPROM (Russia) - GDFSUEZ (France) - GEOPLIN (Slovenia) - FGSZ Ltd (Hungary) - Moldovagaz (Moldova) - NJSC NAFTOGAZ/UKRTRANSGAS AC (Ukraine) - NATIONAL GRID (UK) - ÖMV GAS GmbH (Austria) - POLISH OIL AND GAS COMPANY (Poland) - PODZEMNO SKLADISTE PLINA d.o.o. (PSP/INA) (Croatia) - PLINACRO (Croatia) - ROMGAZ (Romania) - SONATRACH (Algeria) - SRBIJGAS (Serbia) - STEG (Tunisia) - SWISSGAS (Switzerland)