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Our article sums up the conclusions from our March workshop where we examined the opportunities for gas market integration within the Visegrad Four group and the advance the group has made so far. At the workshop, among others, the Polish V4 presidency ...

In our previous article we covered the current market conditions of Hungarian gas storage facilities and the difficulties they face. Our first article expands this analysis to the countries within the Danube river basin. On top of portraying regional ...

The endeavour of the Government, referenced as the „utility bill cut”, has triggered fierce reactions both in the media and within the sector. With the article we set out to provide a short, unbiased summary of this package of measures and its impacts.

A noticeable tendency from the last few years has been the lower and lower capacity utilisation of the Hungarian natural gas storage facilities at the beginning of the withdrawal period. Even though the volume of gas withdrawn from the storage sites to ...

In connection with the Ukrainian-Russian gas dispute of January 2009 the transit pipeline leading to Central Europe was turned off for a few days, instantly bringing the security of supply related exposure of the former Socialist countries to spotlight.

The long term Take-or-pay (TOP) contract that was signed between Gazprom and MOL in 1996, and which even today serves as the backbone of the supply side of the domestic natural gas market, will expire in 2014-15, opening up the opportunity to ...

Following the mild, almost spring-like weather of November and December the troubles of the gas sector reached the headlines and “Have a cold winter! ” became the choice of farewell wish at many natural gas conferences. Therefore, we thought it’s ...

In our study we look at the 2011/2012 allocation of the HAG pipeline, which is of primary importance regarding domestic gas prices, look at the important stages in the history of capacity distribution, and evaluate the results.

There have been a lot of changes in legislation in the past gas year which have had and will have a profound effect on the workings of the natural gas market. This article gives a brief, factual overview of regulation changes affecting the 2010/2011 gas ...

Hungary’s gas supply security greatly depends on the long run import agreement with Russia bound to expire in the middle of the decade. The preparatory negotiations for the next agreement will probably start within the next two years. Taking the two ...