Energy Information Administration
Table Posted: August 19, 2008
Next Update: December 2008 
Natural Gas Prices for Industry 1
(U.S. Dollars per 107 Kilocalories - Gross Calorific Value ) 2 
Country 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Argentina NA NA NA NA NA NA 50.17 66.62 NA
Austria 144.6 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Barbados NA NA NA NA NA NA 823.30 840.54 NA
Belgium C C C C C C C C C
Bolivia NA NA NA NA NA NA 72.80 73.35 NA
Brazil NA NA NA NA NA NA 468.19 494.46 NA
Canada 79.4 89.8 108.8 125.3 210.1 223.6 294.2 272.1 NA
Chile NA NA NA NA NA NA 298.08 424.99 NA
Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) 248.30 297.81 288.63 271.60 302.10 336.83 387.25 413.76 475.57
Colombia NA NA NA NA NA NA 293.00 311.68 NA
Cuba NA NA NA NA NA NA 132.53 132.53 NA
Czech Republic 142.8 147.6 155.9 173.6 203.4 217.5 292.5 402.2 391.7
Denmark C C C C C C C C C
Finland 128.0 130.7 126.0 126.9 158.7 170.3 190.2 248.1 267.9
France 147.1 178.1 197.1 182.5 241.8 262.2 330.2 412.2 414.1
Germany 161.4 187.9 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Greece 151.6 197.4 184.4 181.0 221.5 232.3 312.4 NA NA
Hungary 134.9 109.6 123.2 143.7 235.7 287.7 345.7 451.1 584.2
Indonesia 35.87 44.90 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Ireland 164.7 114.2 143.5 183.8 232.7 291.7 374.0 465.9 C
Italy C C C C C 300.4 351.8 454.2 NA
Japan 385.8 452.7 406.4 357.0 384.9 392.5 401.5 435.3 NA
Kazakhstan 28.57 30.61 34.26 30.85 34.38 45.27 47.57 62.42 67.21
Korea, South NA NA NA NA NA 341.8 392.4 495.2 551.1
Luxembourg NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Mexico 88.3 150.0 163.4 122.7 205.3 300.7 357.1 343.2 347.1
Netherlands 116.7 166.5 175.6 164.5 222.4 NA NA NA NA
New Zealand 73.6 59.8 60.0 65.5 106.1 123.3 166.0 187.0 NA
Norway - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Peru NA NA NA NA NA NA 174.17 199.68 NA
Poland 121.8 133.0 173.3 173.1 175.9 179.4 224.7 294.3 375.1
Portugal NA NA NA 238.1 287.6 285.8 340.3 399.0 428.8
Romania NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Russia NA NA NA NA NA 43.72 53.53 62.15 NA
Slovak Republic (Slovakia) 106.6 101.4 106.6 132.8 220.6 243.0 287.4 378.9 420.2
South Africa 182.89 237.06 212.85 NA 255.79 260.99 323.81 NA NA
Spain 131.4 175.4 176.0 165.5 204.0 215.6 254.2 354.9 380.3
Switzerland 215.0 222.9 296.4 279.2 320.3 352.3 402.6 487.7 576.6
Thailand 83.30 114.68 119.06 117.78 136.44 132.27 171.80 NA NA
Trinidad and Tobago NA NA NA NA NA NA 93.75 101.30 NA
Turkey 162.4 175.0 200.5 215.5 228.9 230.3 304.5 352.7 440.8
United Kingdom 102.9 104.6 140.4 146.4 164.7 202.6 298.8 383.8 NA
United States 118.7 171.0 198.6 154.4 223.8 252.0 325.2 302.0 294.5
Venezuela NA NA NA NA NA NA 15.52 17.57 NA
1 Energy end-use prices including taxes, converted using exchange rates.
2 To convert U.S. dollars per 107 kilocalories to U.S. dollars per million British thermal units (Btu) multiply by 0.0252
NA=Not available.
C=Confidential.
- -=Not appplicable.
Source: Energy Prices & Taxes - Quarterly Statistics, First Quarter 2008, Part II, Section D, Table 15, and Part III, 
Section B, Table 12, Paris: International Energy Agency, 2008. The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA)  q199
maintains annual and quarterly time series of this price data that begin with the year 1978 and that also include 
the most recent quarterly prices.  Information on purchasing this data online from the IEA is available at: 
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