Comment by kome
4 months ago
a lot of LNG is actually Russian tho, using shadow fleets, and this is ridiculous and stupid. But it's what Europe need... imho, while all the investment should be on solar, wind and water - it would be better to cut the hypocrisy and to buy cheap gas from russia.
Well, the fraction of Russian LNG can't be higher than the overall fraction of Russian LNG on the world market right? Because prices for it are the same everywhere - a tanker operator can send it wherever prices are the best. It means a really small fraction. And most importantly, Russians can't threaten to cut it, because it simply means removing some of the supply from a large, uniform pool - if they do it they won't harm anyone in particular, just make LNG everywhere uniformly more expensive - and deprive themselves of money. With pipelines, they could actually imperil supply in a particular place.
Also, Russian LNG will be let go of rather soon, this is in the upcoming sanctions package.