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.

Wtf europe stop that

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.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

As coastal countries, Spain, Belgium and France have become busy destinations for LNG carriers, which need to unload their supplies on sophisticated terminals where the cooled-down liquid is turned back into gaseous form and sent to power plants.

This year’s shopping spree was worth €5.29 billion, Global Witness said, an amount that throws into question the bloc’s efforts to weaken the Kremlin’s war chest, which is fundamentally sustained by international sales of fossil fuels.

While flows of pipeline gas have been dramatically reduced through national plans and Vladimir Putin’s retaliation, tanks of Russian LNG appear to be warmly welcomed at European ports.

While European countries decry the war, they’re putting money into Putin’s pockets," Jonathan Noronha-Gant, a senior fossil fuel campaigner at Global Witness, said in a statement.

Data from Eurostat paints a similar pattern: in the first quarter of 2023, Russia was the EU’s second-largest supplier of LNG, only behind the United States and ahead of Qatar, Algeria, Norway and Nigeria.

Market data analysed by Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic think tank, shows no considerable variation in the flows of Russian LNG, despite the multiple rafts of sanctions and growing evidence of possible war crimes committed inside Ukraine: the EU bought 1.99 mcm of Russian LNG in March 2022, the first full month of the invasion, and 1.59 mcm in July 2023, the last month on record.

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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.