Putin ha patrocinato l'idea della cosiddetta "Opec del gas"

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Il leader algerino a Mosca per coordinare le strategie sul gas
Putin ha patrocinato l’idea della cosiddetta ‘Opec del gas’
●    Incontro tra il presidente russo Putin ed l’algerino Bouteflika sui legami energetici, nel quadro del progetto di un cartello dell’energia simile all’OPEC, che darà discusso anche con il Qatar a giugno;
– Il progetto sta prendendo importanza per l’aumento del consumo di Gas naturale liquefatto, più facile da commerciare.
– Nel 2001 è stato istituito a Teheran il CECF, Forum dei paesi esportatori di gas;
– Bouteflika: il CECF dovrebbe svolgere un ruolo più attivo, i fornitori di gas dell’Europa dovrebbero unirsi contro le “leggi restrittive” sull’import energetico.
o   Nel 2005, la Russia forniva all’Europa il 45% dell’import di gas, la Norvegia il 24,1% e l’Algeria il 20,6%, quest’ultima con tendenza in crescita.
– Nel 2006 i gruppi statali dell’energia, il russo Gazprom e l’algerino Sonatrach, hanno sottoscritto un accordo di cooperazione;
o   durante la visita di Putin in Algeria venne cancellato un debito algerino risalente al periodo dell’URSS, in cambio di acquisto di armi per circa $7MD da parte dell’Algeria.
o   Di recente l’Algeria ha comunicato di voler riconsegnare 15 MIG-29 di bassa qualità, il primo importante scandalo per la cooperazione tecnico-militare russa con paesi stranieri;

Preoccupazioni UE per il nuovo progetto di maggiori legami nel settore energetico tra Algeria e Russia.

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Algerian leader visits Moscow to coordinate gas strategies
Putin has championed idea of so-called ‘gas opec’
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
MOSCOW:
–   The presidents of Russia and Algeria, two of the biggest natural gas suppliers to Europe, met to discuss energy ties in the Kremlin on Tuesday amid a drive to create an energy cartel similar to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). "It’s extremely important that we keep in touch on energy issues, particularly since Algeria this year is chairing OPEC," Russian President Vladimir Putin told his visiting Algerian counterpart, Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika.
Bouteflika told Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency in an interview published on Tuesday ahead of his meeting with the Russian president that major gas exporters should "coordinate" their energy policies.
–   Putin said last year that the creation of a cartel between the world’s biggest gas exporters was "an interesting proposition" and Qatar has said the plan will be discussed at a meeting in Moscow in June.
–   Asked about plans for a cartel, Bouteflika said: "It’s clear that countries such as Russia, Qatar and Algeria already play a major role on international gas markets and they should coordinate their activities even more."
–   He also said that the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), set up in Tehran in 2001, should "play a more active role" and that gas suppliers to the European Union[e] should team up against "restrictive laws" on energy imports.
–   Russia accounted for 45.1 percent of the European Union’s gas imports, Norway 24.1 percent and Algeria 20.6 percent in 2005, with the latter’s share expected to rise, according to official EU data.
–   European officials have expressed concern over the prospect of closer energy ties between Algeria and Russia, particularly after Russian and Algerian state energy companies Gazprom and Sonatrach signed a cooperation deal in 2006.
Qatar has said the cartel will be discussed at a meeting of GECF countries in Moscow in June. Analysts have said the plan is gaining momentum because of the increased use of liquefied natural gas, which can be traded more easily.
"We can cooperate more on gas supplies to Europe," Algeria’s speaker of Parliament, Abdel-Aziz Ziari, told the Vremya Novostei daily on Tuesday.
"Algeria and Russia are among the world leaders in gas exports and our countries could coordinate their activities," Ziari said.
Bouteflika said that OPEC had been formed in the 1960s to defend the interests of oil exporters and to ensure that oil revenues are shared out fairly.
"This lesson should not be forgotten" by gas exporters, the Algerian president added.
–   Bouteflika’s first official visit to Moscow follows a trip by Putin to Algiers in 2006 in which Russia wrote off Soviet-era debt in exchange for arms purchases by Algeria of around seven billion dollars.
–   But military ties between the two countries were clouded on Tuesday after Algeria said it wanted to return 15 Mig-29 fighter jets bought from Russia because of their low quality, Russian newspapers reported.
Putin said at the start of the talks with Bouteflika that the two leaders had "many issues of military-technical cooperation" to discuss, without giving any further details.
"The announcement of the annulment of the Algerian contract is the first major scandal in Russia’s military-technical cooperation with foreign states," the Izvestia daily said.
On Monday, the Kommersant daily cited an official from Russia’s state United Aerospace Corporation saying that Russia could take the jets back but only if Algeria agreed to buy different planes. – AFP
 

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