Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- How This Report Is Organized -- How the Report Has Been Distributed -- Demand-Side Assessments -- Supply-Side Options -- Institutional Framework and Implementation Issues -- Conclusions and Key Findings -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Study Background and Objectives -- Study Methodology and Approach to Analysis -- Overview of the Work Program and Report Content -- Chapter 2. Demand-Side Assessments -- Background: The Economic and Energy Sector Contexts -- Demand Projections -- Fuel Price Scenarios -- Analysis of Prices, Demand Side -- Storage Demand -- Chapter 3. Supply-Side Options -- Analysis of Prices-Supply Side -- Gas Sources of Potential Interest to Southeast Europe -- LNG Potential Supply -- Transmission Pipeline Supply Routes and Scenarios -- Regional Gas Transmission Infrastructure -- Regional Underground Gas Storage -- Economics of Gas Distribution Networks -- Gas Value Chain -- Interaction with Western European Gas Markets -- Implications of Supply Analysis for Each SEE Market -- Chapter 4. Institutional Framework -- The Gas Market in Southeast Europe -- National Gas Markets -- Cross-Border Framework -- Underground Gas Storage -- Financing of Regional Gas Investments -- Conclusions on Institutional Issues -- Chapter 5. Conclusions and Key Findings -- Economics of Gasification -- The Energy Community Gas Ring: A Cooperative Regional Vision for Gas Development -- Phased Development of the EC Ring -- Access to Upstream Pipeline Capacity to Supply the EC Ring -- Diversity of Gas Sources of Supply -- Institutional and Regulatory Framework to Realize the Regional Ring Concept -- Roles of Public and Private Sector Players in Realizing the Gasification Vision -- Appendices -- A Future Russian Gas Prices -- B Liquefied Natural Gas Sources of Interest.

C Methodology for Calculating Pipeline Costs -- D Detailed Transmission Pipeline Routes -- E Prospects for Underground Gas Storage in Southeast Europe -- F City Distribution Case Studies -- G Private Financing -- References -- Back cover.