OECD countries have traditionally had state-owned national companies to
buy oil and gas. Many of these have been … corporatised and at least partly privatised, and other OECD
countries have always had private oil and gas companies. Nevertheless … 2010. [EIA 2003 and IEA 2006c, p. 55 respectively]
The IEA predicts that, by 2010, 30% of gas imports into OECD countries …