Iran Press/ Europe: Russia is currently the most prominent European gas provider, delivering about 40% of natural gas consumed by the region. Russian gas is transferred by several routes, including Nord Stream, running directly to Germany via the Baltic Sea, Ukraine’s gas transmission system, the Yamal-Europe pipeline, and the Turkish Stream pipeline through the Black Sea.
"Increasing gas supplies from Africa and Scandinavia and boosting purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG) cannot help in replacing Russian energy in the European markets," van Beurden said on Thursday.
“Bringing more LNG to the market, increasing liquefaction and regasification capacity, and raising pipeline supplies from North Africa and Norway are reasonable things,” he said, adding: "It is also inevitable to have an energy transition in the medium term.”
“There is no way to buy more pipeline gas and LNG to replace all the Russian gas that we currently consume completely. This is not feasible,” van Beurden said.
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