Editor’s Note: The following segment is one in a series by NGI’s LNG Insight focused on exploring how the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market works. The conversations in this series will also analyze news and the issues that matter most to the industry in North America and beyond.

Anna Mikulska is a nonresident fellow in energy studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of natural gas within the European Union, former Soviet Bloc and Russia. Her current interests include the potential use of natural gas as a geoeconomic tool and investigating ways to leverage U.S. LNG exports to bolster European energy security. She received...