Private Participation in the Transmission and Distribution of Natural Gas-Recent Trends
Author: Ada Karina Izaguirre Date: 4/1/1999 (PDF, 200KB)
Between 1990 and 1997 twenty-six developing countries introduced private participation in the transmission and distribution of natural gas. This Note, which draws on the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Project Database, provides an overview of the patterns and trends in the projects in these countries. The form of private participation varies--ranging from greenfield projects to export natural gas from Algeria to Europe or to create a natural gas distribution market in Mexico to the privatization of existing assets in Argentina and Hungary. During 1990-97 the private sector took on the operations or construction risk of seventy-seven natural gas transport projects, with investments totaling US$18.9 billion.