Funny... how they always -just accidently of course- forget the context in these reports.
Yes, LNG increased from basically nothing (15mil m³) -because they used pipelines- to 22mil m³.
At the same time pipeline gas was shut down with capacities going to the hundered (just Nordstream 1 alone had a capacity of 50mil m³.
Also it's exactly the countries not getting pipeline gas before that are now buying LNG because it got cheap as fuck (the biggest importer is Spain with ~8mil m³ alone) as Russia is struggling to sell it at all.
No one in the West wants to touch anything that benefits Russia atm, because to do so is self-defeating. This is not a result of choice, but of necessity. The EU are also making large strides towards NZ now. The individual countries will stop buying this gas at the earliest opportunity. Individual countries being pertinent as each country is responsible for their own energy supply.
Well it's not all of Europe. But given this is now well known, if the rest of Europe continue to buy the LNG from these countries you need to count them as complicit. They need to be blacklisted by the EU and other states that are currently sanctioning Russia.
Belgium and France are particularly a bad show here in my opinion considering they're where EU parliamentary business takes place.
EU had gas pipelines before. Focussing on LNG is suspicious. LNG was tiny in comparison with what was delivered way more cheaply through those pipelines.
Rather expected. Local production of ng is no longer increasing on the EU countries that produce it. Pretty much all EU producers have stopped any increases of production or CapEx with the introduction of windfall taxes. Pretty much the EU has sent all that investment into countries not so friendly and in the long term they are going to be very reliant on countries that produce LNG. Russia being one.
Good job ensuring these less friendly countries become energy giants. Worked well with Russia.
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