WGC: Politics ranks high in gas pipeline risk factors

Oil & Gas Journal: West Virginia (R) Sen. Shelley Capito, speaking June 26 at the World Gas Conference in Washington, DC, described the recent stop-and-start nature of pipeline construction, brought about by ongoing protests, as “very problematic” regarding needed expansion of the US pipeline system. Her thoughts were echoed on an international scale by Tatiana Mitrova, director of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo Business School’s Energy Center, who ranked geopolitics as the second-biggest risk factor in pipeline network expansion, behind only demand uncertainty.

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