Europe continues to rely on Russian LNG imports to compensate for the decline in pipeline deliveries from the country, despite calls to ban the super-chilled fuel. 

For the first eight months of the year, Russian liquefied natural gas exports totaled 20.58 million tons (Mt), according to Kpler. The European Union’s (EU) 27 countries imported more than half of Russia’s LNG exports over that time, or 10.18 Mt between January and August, compared to 10.43 Mt imported for the same period last year.

“It may well remain this year as high as last year or be even slightly bigger,” European Union Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson recently  told a conference in Warsaw. “We can’t be happy with that.”

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