As the tone used by the marks it evolvesOf Nathalie Benezet will no doubt less needDARRELL ISSArepresentative from California It is totally abnormal rail the authors of the studyWhile the deficit of the State is established at 67This is an ethic of aesthetics in gestationBank balance sheets have changed in natureBut the truth of a day is not that of the next dayCompromised last July with the highest euro to 1Implicit default rates are still too high"No panic!", throws Peter Claes. The President of IFIEC Europe - the European Federation of industrial energy consumers - refuses to speak of "crisis", while the Russia and the Belarus camping on their positions in the conflict between the price of gas, and Gazprom does not "rationing of the (Russian) offer and thus shortages" of gas in Europe. The current tension "endanger yet the security of gas supply", says Peter Claes. For several reasons, that it lists as well. First, 25 of EU gas comes from Russia - there is, therefore, other major sources of supply. Then, all Russian gas does not passes through the Belarus and Gazprom has several weeks of storage in other countries. Finally, if the blockade continued beyond January 1, the Belarus would have problems and would then quickly find a solution.
Tensions between the Russia and the former Soviet Republic indicate, according to Peter Claes, the evolution of the status of the gas. "It is more regulated, and it is only becoming"one commodity like any other"."For decades, the Russia provided to its neighbours - Ukraine, Belarus and others - the gas prices lower than those of the market, he said. Today, Gazprom wants to sell at market prices. "The transition is therefore by tensions or crisis." It is indeed when Gazprom wanted to increase its prices $ 46 to $ 200 the 1,000 m3 tone is mounted between Moscow and Minsk. Gazprom said today ready to descend to 105 $ 1 000 m3, provided they take control of 50 of Beltransgaz - Belarusian company which manages the network of pipelines in the country.
Even if the current tensions were not worried addition-measurement industry, the security of gas supply is, so general, "priority", says Peter Claes. An attachment that Alain Werquin, Adviser to the President of the Uniden - the Union of the user of energy industries - who is more concerned about the current situation: "for the moment, there was not was of major crisis for security of supply in France." But, we're all as Saint Thomas, believed that what you see. They believe the day where plants will be cut... And therefore, tensions with the Ukraine or the Belarus, as the climate crisis of March 2005, are signals that show that the gas supply is not guaranteed. "It is not from a big glitch."
Can you imagine therefore that to guard against potential risks of cuts, industrial invest in bi-énergies systems, and thus have the possibility of fuel or coal gas supply problem The idea is not easy to put into practice. First, for technical constraints: when a glass set in motion a new furnace, it will not stop during its operation - of about ten years-, which limits the substitution of energy. In other cases, as in chemistry, when gas is used as raw material, it cannot be replaced by another fuel. In all other cases where the substitution of energy would be technically feasible, it is politically far too sensitive, said Alain Werquin. "The use of fuel oil and coal run counter to environmental policy, observed." "For this policy is being abandon means to ensure security of supply."
For the time being, the industrial - in France as elsewhere in Europe - worry especially high gas prices. In France, some are even to come together, the image of what others have done in electricity with Dunkirk. But the context is not the same - the France produces no gas, unlike electricity. In any event, for Peter Claes, "there worse than a high price: it is no gas at all!" Forget a moment security of supply, she returned to the gallop...
