{"id":468393,"date":"2022-02-16T08:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T03:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=468393"},"modified":"2022-02-16T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T03:10:08","slug":"russia-ukraine-conflict-could-reshape-europes-natural-gas-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/russia-ukraine-conflict-could-reshape-europes-natural-gas-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine conflict could reshape Europe&#8217;s natural gas reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe relies on Russia\u2019s natural gas to help heat millions of homes, generate electricity and power factories. With Russian troops massed along Ukraine\u2019s border, Europe\u2019s heavy dependence on Russia is limiting its diplomatic options and may throw its energy supplies into turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts and industry executives are sceptical that Putin would cut off gas, in part because of how important gas exports are to his country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, 38 per cent of the natural gas used by the EU came from Russia, according to Bruegel, a research organisation. Some countries, like Poland and Lithuania, have been gradually reducing their reliance on Russia. For others, the dependency has been steadily growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe relies on Russia\u2019s natural gas to help heat millions of homes, generate electricity and power factories. With Russian troops massed along Ukraine\u2019s border, Europe\u2019s heavy dependence on Russia is limiting its diplomatic options and may throw its energy supplies into turmoil. Analysts and industry executives are sceptical that Putin would cut off gas, in part because of how important gas exports are to his country\u2019s economy. In 2021, 38 per cent of the natural gas used by the EU came from Russia, according to Bruegel, a research organisation. Some countries, like Poland and Lithuania, have been gradually reducing their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}