中国石化新闻网讯 据普氏能源资讯2月26日东京报道，国际能源署（IEA）在周二发表的一份报告中表示，亚洲在2015年前将成为仅次于北美洲的全球第2大天然气市场，天然气年需求量将增加到7900亿立方米。
国际能源署总干事玛丽亚·范德胡芬周二在东京由日本能源经济研究所主办的一次会议上说，亚洲已经是全球增长最快天然气市场的所在地。但是，扩大天然气在亚洲的作用将取决于区域市场的状况，即允许燃料在与全球能源市场连接的当地能源市场内独立自主竞争。
范德胡芬说，天然气在亚洲的未来作用将在很大程度上取决于天然气定价如何与这个地区供需基本面挂钩。
（李 峻 编译）
原文如下：
Asia to be 2nd largest global gas market by 2015 with 790 Bcm/year demand: IEA
Tokyo (Platts)--26Feb2013
Asia will become the second-largest global natural gas market after North America by 2015 with annual demand rising to 790 billion cubic meters, the International Energy Agency said in a report released Tuesday.
"Asia is already home to the world's fastest-growing gas market. But expanding the role of gas in Asia will depend on regional market conditions that allow the fuel to compete autonomously in local energy markets that are themselves connected to global energy markets," IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven told a conference in Tokyo sponsored by the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan.
"The future role of gas in Asia will depend considerably on how the pricing of natural gas is tied to the fundamentals of supply and demand in the region," Van der Hoeven said.
