France is significantly increasing its imports of Russian LNG even as the rest of Europe reduces its reliance on Russian energy supplies.
France is importing record volumes of Russia n LNG even as overall LNG purchases are falling, ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg showed on Monday, highlighting Europe ’s growing imports of Russia n LNG . So far this year, France has already imported more LNG from Russia ’s Yamal export plant than in any other full year since these deliveries began six years ago, per the data collated by Bloomberg.
, the former Gazprom unit in Germany, which the German government nationalized in 2022 after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. has a contract to deliver LNG cargoes from Yamal into Dunkirk inherited by the former owner, Gazprom. The German state company is buying the Russian LNG cargoes and the contract “is therefore being fulfilled in order to keep the advantage for the Russian side as low as possible,” a spokesperson for Germany’s economy ministry told Bloomberg.
has never delivered or attempted to deliver Russian LNG into Germany, company spokesman Jan-Peter Haack told Bloomberg in an email. Last week, reports emerged that Germany’s economy ministry had warned the operators of its LNG import terminals to refuse acceptance of cargoes from Russia until further notice, as the import of Russian LNG undermines the very concept of rushing to set up LNG ports in the first place—cutting off dependence on Russian gas supply.
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