Authorization And Declaration Of Natural Gas Pipelines

Introduction

Natural Gas Pipelines are, without a doubt, critical infrastructure. A robust pipeline infrastructure is necessary to ensure efficient delivery of natural gas to its industrial users and consumers. For more reasons than one, it is crucial to ensure that pipeline infrastructure is accessible to large numbers and redundancy is avoided. It only requires little imagination to understand the consequence if access to pipelines was controlled wholly by the owners, who are likely to be organizations with deep pockets and who may or may not engage in practices not conducive to competition and fair play. This is a complex issue, especially given that petroleum and natural gas marketing and distribution was initially confined only to a few public sector undertakings and thereafter included a few private players, and merits a separate study.