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Russia’s Gazprom on Monday said it has started moving natural gas on its massive Power of Siberia pipeline to China, one of the world’s largest importers of the fuel and where the U.S. is already at a disadvantage as a trade war with the country drags on.

Poland’s state-owned natural gas company has signaled its intent to terminate pipeline imports from Russia’s Gazprom in the coming years, as supplies from other sources have grown, particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar, the United States and other countries.

The Trump administration looked to advance Lower 48 liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Europe along two fronts Tuesday, with one official saying the White House wants to help facilitate U.S. exports to the continent and another urging European allies not to participate in a pair of pipeline projects backed by Russia.

India’s state-owned natural gas utility, Gail (India) Ltd., said it has renegotiated its 20-year contract to purchase liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia’s Gazprom, with deliveries expected to begin in the second quarter.

Russia’s OAO Gazprom might want to grow its presence in global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade, but it will face headwinds from supplies coming from Australia, the Middle East as well as from the United States, according to an analyst with GlobalData.

Gazprom Neft has approved the continued study of shale oil reserves at the Bazheno-Abalaksky complex of the Palyanovskaya zone at the Krasnoleninskoye field in western Siberia, which is being developed by Gazpromneft-Khantos.

Germany’s shale plays could hold trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, according to figures released last week by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), a government geosciences authority.