A world map showing members of the new Gas Exporting Countries Forum and their share of world reserves. Gas exporting states on Tuesday finalised the creation of a new Qatar (卡塔尔,阿拉伯东部一国家)-based forum aimed at coordinating gas policy that consumer countries fear could become the gas equivalent (对等物) of oil cartel OPEC.
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) speaks during the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow. Gas exporting states on Tuesday finalised the creation of a new Qatar-based forum aimed at coordinating gas policy that consumer countries fear could become the gas equivalent of oil cartel OPEC.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow. Putin warned on Tuesday that consumer countries faced higher gas prices, as a fledgling forum that has raised fears of an OPEC-style gas cartel met to coordinate policy.
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A gas pressure-gauge and the valve of a main gas-pipe, pictured in 2006. Gas exporting states on Tuesday finalised the creation of a new Qatar-based forum aimed at coordinating gas policy that consumer countries fear could become the gas equivalent of oil cartel OPEC.
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Algerian Oil Minister and OPEC President Chakib Khelil talks during a closing news conference of 151st Extraordinary Meeting of the OPEC in the western city of Oran December 17, 2008.
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) speaks during the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow. Putin warned on Tuesday that consumer countries faced higher gas prices, as a fledgling (雏鸟，刚出生的) forum that has raised fears of an OPEC-style gas cartel met to coordinate policy.
(AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova)
Algeria's Energy and Mining Minister and OPEC President Chakib Khelil attends a meeting of energy ministers of 12 gas exporting countries in Moscow, December 23, 2008. Energy ministers of 12 gas exporting countries flew to Moscow on Tuesday to create a formal group, which they say will not control output and prices as feared by energy consumers in the West.
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks with Igor Sechin, deputy premier, left at a meeting of a dozen leading natural gas exporters who convened (正式集会) in Moscow on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008, to strengthen cooperation amid consuming countries' concerns that they might turn into an OPEC-style cartel.
(AP Photo/ Ivan Sekretarev)
