For the first time in history!The United States surpasses Russia

According to data released by the International Energy Agency on June 30, the LNG imported from the United States in June surpassed the pipeline natural gas imported from Russia for the first time.

Affected by the conflict of Russia and Ukraine, in order to counter the sanctions against Western countries, Russia has sharply cut Russia's natural gas volume transmitted to Europe through the Beixi pipeline.Russia also stated that due to the plan to perform annual maintenance, it will suspend the supply of natural gas in Germany in mid -July.In addition, Russia has stopped supplying natural gas in European countries such as Finland, Poland, Bulgaria.

In March of this year, the European Union decided to buy an additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefaction natural gas from the United States to reduce imported Russian natural gas, and expressed his hope to replace one -third of Russian natural gas imports through various sources of liquefied natural gas.It is understood that Russia transports about 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe each year. In addition, it also exports 14 billion cubic meters to 18 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, accounting for more than 40%of the total natural gas imports in Europe.

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