Gazprom has supplied European consumers through pipelines since the beginning of this year a hundred times more gas than the United States has liquefied natural gas. And for Russia this is not the limit - the country can become one of the leaders in the delivery of LNG. American gas in 2018. practically not shipped to European countries and certainly lost competition to Gazprom on the continent. "In the first 10 months, the ratio of Russian pipeline gas and LNG supplies from the United States to European countries was more than 100: 1," reports URA.. RU with reference to the report of the Russian monopolist. Moreover, the Russian Federation "has a serious potential for becoming one of the world leaders in the LNG industry," the corporation noted. The company continues to work on the development of liquefied natural gas production. According to a press release from Gazprom, in order to strengthen its position in the LNG market, the monopolist is developing projects to build the Baltic LNG plant and expand Sakhalin-2’s capacity, and is also implementing a project to erect a liquefied LNG plant. natural gas in the area of ??the Portovaya compressor station, located on the Baltic Sea coast in Portovaya Bay, near the town of Vyborg, Leningrad Region. The other day, experts from Bloomberg came to the conclusion that in the future the dependence of European countries on the supply of natural gas from Russia will only increase.

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Therefore, the Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines will be Russia's main projects that will increase its influence in Europe.. According to the agency, our country now supplies the Europeans about 30% of the total blue fuel consumed, but already in the 2025th Gazprom will supply the continent with gas by 40%.