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In many respects the Russian gas industry resembles the gas industry of any other country: it is a collection of enterprises that perform inland and off-shore exploration, drilling, production, and processing of natural gas, gas condensate, and oil, as well as transportation, distribution, and marketing. Yet the Russian gas industry is remarkable in that it has two contrasting yet coexisting types of participants: a vertically integrated gas company, Gazprom, which has a monopoly on many facets of the industry, and gas producers independent of the monopoly.
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Nazarov, I. (2015). Overview of the Russian Natural Gas Industry. In: Vavilov, A. (eds) Gazprom. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137461100_2
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