{"id":3346,"date":"2023-08-30T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukropposition.com\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2023-09-01T20:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:04:52","slug":"increased-by-40-eu-imports-record-volumes-of-liquefied-natural-gas-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/increased-by-40-eu-imports-record-volumes-of-liquefied-natural-gas-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased by 40%: EU imports record volumes of liquefied natural gas from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>European Union countries are planning to import a record amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia this year.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1e70ff72-52d8-46b6-a8f4-fcc86fb88a6d\">The information reported according to Financial Times citing data from Global Witness.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The import of Russian LNG to the EU in the first half of the year has already increased by 40% compared to the same period in 2021. The largest importers of LNG are Belgium and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>During the first half of 2023, Belgium and Spain became the second and third-largest buyers of Russian LNG after China, according to the organization&#8217;s data. From January to July, LNG deliveries from Russia to China increased by 62.7%, reaching 4.46 million tons. According to China&#8217;s General Administration of Customs, the import value of energy resources from Russia during this period increased by 21.9%, surpassing $2.98 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The overall import volume of LNG into the European Union increased by 40% in the period from January to July 2023 compared to the same period in 2021, prior to the full-scale conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>A representative from Global Witness, Jonathan Noronha-Hunt, expressed surprise that EU countries, which had decided to move away from Russian pipeline gas, eventually turned to imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG).<\/p>\n<p>EU representatives warned against a complete ban on the import of Russian LNG, as it could lead to an energy crisis similar to what happened last year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union countries are planning to import a record amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia this year. The information reported according to Financial Times<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[107,136,137,30],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-eu","tag-gas","tag-lng","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}