Russian energy group with the power to plunge Europe into darkness

Gazprom has so much natural gas under the tundra of Siberia that its energy resources are equivalent to all the oil and gas fields owned by western energy companies put together

The next cold war may well take place in a room that looks oddly like a scene from the last one. Along one wall of a spartan control centre in Moscow, a large map of Europe is projected on computer screens. Visitors have to pass through five rings of security to reach this spot, but the few outsiders who make it through are proudly shown a display of raw power. From underground facilities deep inside Siberia, a series of trajectories are plotted on the computer screens

Fortunately, this is not missile command but the control room of Gazprom, the world’s largest gas producer and a flagship of Russian capitalism. The plotted lines show the route of major pipelines