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By Rhod Mackenzie
The refusal of Russian gas by many European nations last year, coupled with the resulting energy crisis, compelled Europeans to seek out "blue fuel" from around the globe, despite its high transport costs or price. The augmented demand for gas not only rendered the European gas m...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Moldova has announced that it would stop buying gas from Gazprom because it had found an opportunity to buy gas on the European market, and at a lower price. It would appear tha this loud statement was made to please the politicians and bureaucrats of the European Union: look, So...
On 1st October, the Netherlands will finally close its primary gas field located near the northern city of Groningen. This gas field, was the largest source of hydrocarbons in continental Western Europe,it helped in the swift development of the post-war Netherlands, but at the same time caused the i...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Ukraine have given an explainion about why they continue to take money from Gazprom and pump Russian gas. It turns out that this is only done for the sake of their European partners, so that they do not freeze in winter. But is the Ukrainian Naftogaz being disingenuous. What...
By Rhod Mackenzie
For the first two decades of the 21st century, Germany was in its economic ascendency. Its economy boomed,it was one success after another. It gained dominace in world markets in areas such as high-tech,luxury cars and precision engineering and sold so much of its output that i...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russian companies exported 3.27 billion cubic metres of gas to China in July 2023, which was a record figure in the entire history of trade between the two countries, according to data from the Chinese Customs Bureau.
This is the total volume of both pipeline and liquefied supp...
