UK natural gas imports by country of origin (in 2021)
Country
Natural gas (metric tons)
Norway
1,440,000
United States
92,000
Denmark
45,000
Belgium
45,000
Russia
12,000
France
8,000
That’s not a very high proportion that was coming from Russia even before the invasion.
Maybe demand for Norwegian gas has increased due to other countries that did import a lot from Russia wanting to import from Norway, and that’d have an indirect effect on the UK, depending upon the contractual situation with Norway.
I mean, Bangladesh was not, as far as I know, getting natural gas from Russia at all, but when the European energy crisis happened, they promptly got priced out of the market and had blackouts.
Are there supposed to be shortages incoming?
For gas? I haven’t heard of anything changing, we are still reliant on Russia so I can’t see why we would t have winter shortages.
https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog/uk-gas-sources
That’s not a very high proportion that was coming from Russia even before the invasion.
Maybe demand for Norwegian gas has increased due to other countries that did import a lot from Russia wanting to import from Norway, and that’d have an indirect effect on the UK, depending upon the contractual situation with Norway.
I mean, Bangladesh was not, as far as I know, getting natural gas from Russia at all, but when the European energy crisis happened, they promptly got priced out of the market and had blackouts.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/asia/bangladesh-blackouts-power-grid-failure-intl/index.html
This is what I meant.
We is not exclusively the UK, but if other countries are then we (the UK) are indirectly reliant on it not causing everyone else to come for our gas.
We gave away our North Sea resources, and now we are subject to the global market which includes Russia.