OMV says gas disclosure expectations may be unrealistic

Wed, 15 May 2019

By Gavin Evans May 15 (BusinessDesk) - OMV says it supports greater disclosure of outages in the gas sector but is concerned some players may have unrealistic expectations of new rules intended to make that happen. New Zealand’s biggest gas producer says it is alive to the concerns of users and broader energy consumers about the impact of gas field outages last year, particularly at the Pohokura field it now operates. But it believes some of the concern about information disclosure – and also the expected benefit of greater disclosure...

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