The document refers to securing the natural gas supply through “the valuation of locally made gas solely on the local market, until natural gas imports are diversified”.
The current infrastructure does not allow Romania to export gas. Even if Romania has a pipeline connection with Hungary, the pipe can only be used for imports at the moment.
Romania imports natural gas mainly from Russia, through intermediaries, but also from Hungary, which provides minute volumes compared to consumption.
The only way for Romania to diversify its gas imports would involve the completion of the Nabucco pipeline and AGRI gas route. None of these two projects is running at the moment, and their completion will not be achievable for several years.
The largest local gas producers are OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) and Romgaz Medias.
Petrom recently announced it will start exporting gas if the local market is not deregulated. The International Monetary Fund asked local authorities to liberalize electricity and gas prices by 2013 for companies and between 2013 and 2015 for households.