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Belgium clears Gazprom for industrial gas supplies - paper

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Russian energy giant Gazprom has received permission from the Belgian authorities to supply natural gas to the European country's major industrial enterprises, the Belgian newspaper De Tijd said on Tuesday.
BRUSSELS, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant Gazprom has received permission from the Belgian authorities to supply natural gas to the European country's major industrial enterprises, the Belgian newspaper De Tijd said on Tuesday.

Belgium is the third country after Britain and France to grant Gazprom a license to supply natural gas to major industrial consumers, the paper said.

Belgium has no proven natural gas reserves and is forced to import about 16.4 billion cubic meters of gas for domestic consumption every year.

Gazprom, with its huge gas reserves, could prove serious competition for Belgium's Distrigas and France's Gaz de France on the Belgian market, the paper said.

Gazprom supplied 300 million cubic meters of natural gas to Belgium in 2006.

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