About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Natural gas pipeline companies, Gazprom, GDF Suez, List of natural gas pipelines, Enbridge, MOL Group, Gaz de France, Pembina Pipeline, Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company Limited, Energinet.dk, Inter Pipeline Fund, GRTgaz, Emera, Entergy, Black powder in gas pipelines, New European Transmission System, TransCanada Corp., GAIL, Gasunie, Transportadora de Gas del Sur, Nord Stream AG, Veresen, Transmission system operator, BOTA, Enagas, European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas, Armrosgazprom, Gassled, Gaz Metro, Gaz-System, Enterprise Products, Srbijagas, Plinacro, Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, Inc, Sui Southern Gas Company, Boardwalk Pipelines, Gassco, Cal k Enerji, Scotia Gas Networks, Beltransgaz, Transnet Pipelines, TC PipeLines, CentGas, Blue Dolphin Energy Company, Fluxys, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines, KO Transmission, Korea Gas Corporation, Bulgartransgaz, Miller Pipeline Corporation, Transpetro, East Mediterranean Gas Company, Energy Transfer Equity, Energy Transfer Partners. Excerpt: Gazprom (Russian: , IPA: ) is the largest extractor of natural gas in the world and the largest Russian company. Gazprom was created in 1989 when the Ministry of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union transformed itself into a corporation, keeping all its assets intact. The company was later privatized in part, but currently the Russian government holds a controlling stake. In 2008, the company produced 549.7 billion cubic metres (BCM) of natural gas, amounting to 17% of the worldwide gas production. In addition, the company produced 32 million tons of oil and 10.9 million tons of gas condensate. Gazprom's activities accounted for 10% of Russia's gross domestic product in 2008. The major part of Gazprom's production fields are located around the Gulf of Ob in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Western Siberia, w...
