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| 3_14159 | Mar 2 2014, 12:44 AM Post #1 |
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Peter Tempel Permanent Representative of Germany to the European Union Esteemed delegates, with the increased tensions with Russia, our dependency on Russian natural gas imports are more and more critical. Several countries - Germany with 36% of the consumed natural gas being one of them - are strongly dependant on Russian gas exports, reducing our ability to enact economic sanctions and making us vulnerable to such in return. Our possible actions appear two-fold: Reducing consumption and getting other trading partners. The first would require a higher dependency on coal, nuclear power and renewable energies, and a lower energy consumption. There is a significant problem with finding other sources for natural gas. Russia being the biggest producer in the market makes this difficult. There are several shorter-term and longer-term approaches possible. For the immediate future, a shortfall of Russian gas might be balanced by sharing some resources with the US. After that, a controlled increase in our own resource extraction might be possible, though with the limited reserves such is only a medium-term solution. |
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| Jos1311 | Mar 22 2014, 08:27 AM Post #11 |
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![]() Représentant Permanent de la France auprès de l'Union européenne | Permanent Representative of France to the European Union Fellow Representatives, while Mr. Prawda has a point that internal shale gas fields should be utilized as much as possible, it should also be noted that these take years to develop and mature. And we are in need of relative swift diversification, due to the the recent political developments. That combined with what you already pointed out, namely that various nations, including France, which has Europe's second largest shale gas potential, are not allowing "fracking" due to concerns over the damage the extraction process would cause to the environment. At the same time it should also be noted that a large part of the reserves are technologically not recoverable, as it currently looks Europe as a whole would not even rank within the top 10 of areas by technologically recoverable shale gas amounts. While due to the composition European shale gas will be as much as five times more expensive than U.S. shale gas, and thus also more expensive in some cases than regular gas. While these matters make the extraction of shale gas from several basins difficult at the moment, France would support the development in areas where it is considered possible, including Poland. However we should also be realistic and understand, that due to the many issues pointed out, it will be difficult to immediately replace Russian gas imports with large quantities of European shale gas. We therefore again stress Union broad investments in various sources of energy not excluding any. While we respect the German concerns over nuclear energy, we do not support the idea to ban nuclear energy from the list, especially not in member states where the opposition to this form of energy is far less than in Germany. |
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| Amorn | Mar 22 2014, 10:19 AM Post #12 |
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Ivan Rogers Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union While we agree with the principle of the Polish suggestions we do feel that such measures provide a more long term framework towards dealing with the threat of over-reliance on Russian gas exports, additionally the cost effectiveness of investment in shale gas when other far cheaper and accessible options are available does raise questions. Now the United Kingdom feels that a scale-down of Iranian sanctions, assuming a deal is reached in Geneva, could go a long way towards maintaining stability in the energy market at least for the short term, particularly with the activation of Israel's new and large gas reserves in the coming year. A crucial goal of the EU as a whole has to be the facilitation of a Turkey-Israeli pipeline deal allowing the transport of gas extracted in Cypriot/Israeli gas fields to be handled far more efficiently and effectively. |
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| Eryk | Mar 22 2014, 12:16 PM Post #13 |
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Stały przedstawiciel RP przy Unii Europejskiej l Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the European Union We find that rapid energy diversification is an unattainable goal. Many nations, such as Poland, have long-term contracts with Gazprom for the supply of natural gas. These contracts extend decades into the future. The potential cost from cancelling such a contract - in the billions of dollars - is simply to high to do so. Thus you are correct in stating that we are proposing a long-term vision of reducing gas imports from Russia. This vision stems from the previously mentioned contractual obligations, and the fact that it would be ruinous for the Russian economy for Moscow to cease gas exports to Europe. Poland recently adopted a nuclear power program which it will have to revise in light of current issues with Russia to speed up the construction process, so as to ensure that through the next two decades a substantial amount of safe and sustainable nuclear power becomes available. European support in terms of funding and technical support will be a necessity. We therefore find ourselves inclined to be in agreement with the French delegation in stating that any members should have the option to develop an energy policy which considers their circumstances. In Poland's case, it would be somewhat difficult to justify large-scale investments into for example solar power as this would produce little effect. On the other hand, Poland maintains large stretches of land highly conducive to wind power, and we would be prepared to investigate potential projects in this area. We once more emphasize that for such projects to succeed, a degree of assistance would be crucial. |
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| iceviking | Apr 3 2014, 04:02 AM Post #14 |
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![]() Anders Ahnlid, Sweden's Ambassador to the EU Sweden believes that Iran can play a important part in supply of oil and gas to the EU, with recent developments in Tehran and thawing of relations, we believe that we should consider Iran as an alternative supply to Russia. We believe that self-sufficient is best, but if that fails we need to plan ahead and not rely on one supplier, namely Russia. We also are considering talking to Norway into supplying the EU as well. We need to think of other places in case the situation gets any worse. Edited by iceviking, Apr 4 2014, 03:24 AM.
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| Eryk | Apr 3 2014, 05:26 PM Post #15 |
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Stały przedstawiciel RP przy Unii Europejskiej l Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the European Union We believe if a suitable agreement can be reached on the nuclear issue, Iran could indeed become a valued import partner. We would however be apprehensive about overly relying on Tehran to supply the European Union with gas and oil - the closeness developed between Iran and Russia over these past years does not make them reliable partner. |
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| iceviking | Apr 4 2014, 03:25 AM Post #16 |
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![]() Anders Ahnlid, Sweden's Ambassador to the EU Mr Prawda I do not suggest that we only deal with one nation, but to diversify and make sure that we are not over-reliant on one source for our gas and oil. |
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| Eryk | Apr 13 2014, 10:18 AM Post #17 |
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Stały przedstawiciel RP przy Unii Europejskiej l Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the European Union Poland is currently in the process of completing a large liquid natural gas terminal in Świnoujście, which through contracts with Qatar and other exporters of LNG, we will be able to satisfy 50% of domestic demand moving forward from the end of this year onward. The second and third steps respectively in developing Poland's energy security is the development of a modern and viable gas infrastructure, and the exploitation of Poland's vast shale gas and tight oil reserves. Despite our efforts to entice our partners here within the European Union with assistance, it is our understanding that we will have to move forward with the last next two programs ourselves. Nonetheless, we believe that a "gas pact" which would integrate energy infrastructure and allow for inter-connectivity throughout Europe is absolutely necessary to secure the future energy security of EU members. Through linking of independent gas infrastructure throughout Europe, and pushing through modernization, it would be possible to achieve security in the coming decade and lessen dependence on Russian natural resources. To this end, we believe that Croatia should move forward with the Adria LNG terminal as soon as possible, and that a gas corridor is created between Poland's terminal in Świnoujście and the Adria terminal in Omišalj. A second step which could be immidiaitely taken would be the integration and modernization of gas infrastructure, linking Polish, Czech, German, Baltic (including Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), Slovakian, Hungarian, and Austrian gas infrastructure. These connections would obviously take years to mature fully, however the process of integrating Polish and Slovakian gas infrastructure has begun and will already be completed by 2017. A last, Franco-German link could effectively bring together the continent, and create a large regional gas market. We believe that the proposal should also be available to the Ukrainian government which itself is looking to build an LNG terminal in Odessa. With numerous LNG terminals throughout the European Union, mutual connectivity, the expansion of domestic resources in countries such as Poland, we believe that we can provide a substitute to Russian gas imports and begin the process by next year. To finance and move forward this project, we recommend that upon selection the new commission adopts an action plan similar to those adopted for the Trans-European Transport Network, and that cuts to the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework are reversed to provide funding for the endeavor. |
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