THE PIPELINE TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL GAS AND ADJUSTMENT OF FREE ACESS IN BRAZIL: HISTORICAL AND CURRENT PERSPECTIVES

The present research, attempting for the economic relevance of the natural gas sector, for the inexistence of a law that disciplines it and, still, for the structural question of the natural gas ducts activity; it analyzes the monopoly of the natural gas ducts activity and the mechanism of competition chosen to brighten it up: the open access. The regulation of the open access and the viability that the insert of this practice has to Brazil nowadays are very important points to be discussed and, in that way, the present research also analyses them.