
Originally Posted by
Captain
Gas to Western Europe goes mainly through pipelines from Norway to Belgium, North Africa to Southern Europe and shipping through Spain, Montoir (France imports from Algeria) and Zeebrugge in Belgium (with imports gas from Qatar, import through the Statoil /Gassco line from Norway and the Backsea line exporting to the UK the port handles more tha 50% of the gasneeds for Western Europe
In the meantimenew LNG terminals are/were built in Rotterdam, london Ports and Milford Haven.
The Russians are building a new pipeline , which doesn't go through the Ukraine ( in the last conflict Ukrainians stole the the cas destined for Eastern Europe and the Yugoslavian republics) to Germany. They are also building a new LNG-port in Northern Siberia for shipping it to Western Europe.
In a crisis, there will be a shortage in Bulgaria, Roumania etc as those countries get the gas through the "Ukrainian" pipeline.
There is not much Gazprom gas going to Western Europe, with the exception maybe of Germany.
The complete Western gasnet is connected.
Been sailing on LNG tankers to Montoir and after been involved with LNG in the port of Zeebrugge. I don't say I know a lot, but I know something.
Biggest problem with gas to Europe now is the big demand from Japan after the Fukushima disaster, they closed a lot of nuclear power stations and switched to natural gas