Germany’s demand for Russian LNG passing through European ports.
Financial Times writes about this.
Germany is still buying significant volumes of Russian liquefied natural gas through other EU countries, despite the fact that Berlin refused the direct supply of Russian fuel, according to the report.
The German National Energy Company SEFE acquired 58 Russian LNGs through the French port of Dunkirk last year. This is more than six times higher than 2023, according to the report of the Belgian, German and Ukrainian non -governmental organizations.
The problem of tracking Russian gas in the EU energy system has become one of the most important, since the block is trying to get away from Russian fossil fuel.
Belgium, France and Spain Ministers of Energy, which come to Russian LNG tankers, insist that a very small part of the upcoming gas is used in countries, and most of the EU is sent to other countries. In November, Germany ordered its state imported terminals to reject any cargo of Russian LNG.
Germany forbade the import of Russian LNG into its ports. But the import, which was officially made from France and Belgium, is actually partially consists of Russian LNG, which actually tears out gas … The final result is that all involved countries may say that they are not responsible for the demand for Russian LNG , which is still growing, ”says the Energy Policy Specialist in the Belgian Analytical Center Bonder Leefmilieu Angelos Kutsis, which helped in preparing the report.
The report compiled by German ecological groups Deutsche Umwelthilfe and Urgewald, as well as the Ukrainian Razom We Stand, claim that the country still receives from 3 to 9.2% of the gas from other EU countries.
The lack of transparency in the domestic market of the EU led to “transferring guilt into state -member states, which led to inaction against Russian LNG, since no state feels completely responsible,” the report said.
For example, gas transported from Belgian ports in official German databases is usually called Belgian gas, although Belgium does not have its own gas production.
Source: Racurs
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