Qatar suggests gas prices linked to oil prices

Xinhua Kuwait, December 9 (Xinhua) Doha News: Qatar Emirhammad Alesani 9th in Qatar, the capital of Doha, the World Gas Exporting Countries Forum, the proposal to link the price of natural gas and international oil prices to change the status of low gas prices. "Since this year, international oil prices have rebounded, and gas prices have not, I hope this is a temporary phenomenon," said Hamad.　　"He suggested that Member States analyze the causes of the large gap between gas prices and oil prices, and finally realize the mechanism of linked gas prices and oil prices." Qatar's energy minister, Attiya, agreed with his proposal.　　On the price issue, he said, natural gas, a clean and environmentally friendly energy source, was not "treated fairly" and gas prices should be linked to oil prices. On the same day, energy ministers or representatives of States members of the natural Gas Exporting Countries forum attended a one-day meeting.　　Leonide Bohanovsky, vice president of Russia's gas engineering construction and Transportation company, was the first Secretary-General of the natural Gas Exporting country forum. The World Natural Gas Exporters Forum was launched in 2001 by Russia, Iran and Qatar, the top three world gas reserves, with 15 Member States and 2 observer countries. The seventh ministerial meeting of the World Gas Exporting Countries Forum, held in Moscow in December 2008, decided to set up the forum headquarters in Doha and to establish a secretariat.