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UK ‘looking to other countries’ for natural gas supply amid Russia spy row
UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday the UK was “looking to other countries” for gas supply due to deteriorating relations with Russia triggered by the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal in the UK.
- UK planning series of measures against Russia
- Russian gas not a big source of UK supply
- No UK gas price reaction, traders not concerned
May was asked in the UK Parliament Wednesday by Conservative lawmaker Stephen Crabb whether she agreed that the UK “should not provide a market for Russian gas.
She said: “Can I reassure [you] that when we are looking at our gas supplies, we are looking to other countries.”
Crabb also suggested that if the UK needed additional LNG imports it should instead look to “allies such as Qatar, Malaysia and Australia who are more than willing to sell it to us.” The UK is less dependent than much of Europe on direct Russian gas supplies, but it does buy gas from Gazprom Export and Gazprom’s UK-based trading arm Gazprom Marketing & Trading.
For instance, UK utility Centrica has a long-term contract with GMT for the supply of an average of 4.2 Bcm a year of gas.
One cargo of LNG from the newly operational Yamal LNG facility in northern Russia has also been delivered into the UK grid since the plant started up in December, with one other re-exported to the US.
A third cargo from Yamal LNG landed at the Isle of Grain LNG import terminal on Tuesday and offloaded its cargo, though it is unclear whether the gas will enter the UK grid or be re-exported to a different destination.
May’s comments come after the government earlier Wednesday said it would introduce a series of measures against Russia over the Skripal poisoning, including expelling 23 diplomats and freezing Russian state assets “wherever we have the evidence that they may be used to threaten the life or property of UK nationals or residents.”
GAS TRADER REACTION
The UK day-ahead contract ticked down on Wednesday, trading at 60 p/th, as UK gas traders shrugged off May’s comments.
A trader said that May’s comments looked “very vague” and that there was “nothing she could do in reality.”
Another trader said: “Until we see gas switched off, I think nothing much is going to happen.”
The increased rhetoric around Russian gas supplies to the UK has also prompted a response from the UK GMB labor union, which said the UK should invest more in its own energy sector so it would not be reliant on foreign suppliers.
“We need a serious strategy and investment in UK energy to make sure we can stand on our own two feet,” it said. “We cannot and should not be beholden to foreign powers who could turn the tap off.”
59 Comments on "UK ‘looking to other countries’ for natural gas supply amid Russia spy row"
JuanP on Thu, 15th Mar 2018 9:20 pm
I seriously doubt that if the UK stopped importing Russian natural gas the Russians would care. From my point of view this is great news for Russia. Russia should stop selling energy to its enemies. Russia is the BIGGEST country in the world and has all the water, food, energy, and weapons it needs to supply and defend its population for the foreseeable future. How many countries in the world can supply all their needs and defend their populations from ALL their enemies? In the USA we can’t even protect our population from the US government! Reelect Putin for Russian President! Long live Russia! Screw the washed out UK!
MASTERMIND on Thu, 15th Mar 2018 9:25 pm
JuanP
You would suck ass to the worlds richest con man Putin. Maybe he will hire you to mow his lawn? Putin is going down hard he can’t win against the US and our allies. And all of his countries resources will be ours soon! Just like Iraq and Libya and all the others! USA USA!
Anonymouse1 on Thu, 15th Mar 2018 9:57 pm
This article reeks of all kinds of stupid. The UK is nowhere near energy efficient, the brits have already squandered their best energy resources, first coal, then the North Sea and sold it off to the lowest possible bidders. Leaving aside the false flag nonsense of this ‘nerve gas attack’ the UK is in no position to get choosy about who they are buying their energy from. They should be grateful sellers will still accept their currency at all.
Anonymouse1 on Thu, 15th Mar 2018 9:58 pm
self-sufficient, not ‘sufficient’ sorry
Boat on Thu, 15th Mar 2018 10:14 pm
JaunP
Try to act civilized while your in the US. Or…go back to the third world and scream all you want.
Boat on Thu, 15th Mar 2018 10:22 pm
A cold winter or two would be good for Europe if it means being Russian Nat gas free. The Free world needs nothing from Russia. Trump could build a wall and make Putin pay for it. Lol
Kat C on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 4:20 am
“May was asked in the UK Parliament Wednesday by Conservative lawmaker Stephen Crabb whether she agreed that the UK “should not provide a market for Russian gas.”
That’s a question you should only ask if you have another source at the same price.
I suppose Ukraine should also ask that about Russian Coal.
Idiots.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova “One does not give 24 hours notice to a nuclear power” adding that the “Skripal poisoning was not an incident but a colossal international provocation.”
JuanP on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 8:33 am
Was it the USA? Was it Israel? Was it the British? I don’t think it was the Russians.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-british-governments-russia-nerve-agent-claims-are-bullshit-a69b4ee484ce
President Putin is a few days away from being reelected and American morons like Micromind and Boatard are losing it. Long live Russia! Long live President Putin! Long live President Trump! The US bullshit keeps getting more ridiculous every single day, but apparently the USA is full of ignorant idiots, like those mentioned above, and there is no end in sight for Americans’ delusional bullshit. “In the land of the freaks and the home of the slaves”. LOL!
JuanP on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 8:38 am
Micromind, You are one ignorant dumbfuck! Russia has the capacity to permanently destroy the USA in a matter of minutes! I will greatly enjoy Putin’s reelection, knowing how much it angers delusional retards like you. Long live President Putin! Long live Russia! Long live President Trump!
MASTERMIND on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 8:46 am
Juanp! Long live the billionaire elites! You are so dumb its astonishing! i bet you are a rapist just like Trump says your people are!
MASTERMIND on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 8:49 am
Britain First leader Paul Golding allegedly beaten up in prison
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/16/britain-first-leader-paul-golding-allegedly-beaten-up-in-prison?CMP=twt_gu
TheNationalist on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 8:57 am
Land of the freaks and the home of the slaves!
Thats bloody hillarious, good one Juan!
The timing of this ‘assassination’ is very suspicious. Like Juan said the yank CIA cant stop Putin so we see this giant tantrum and yank inspired circus show. Britain again for bizarre reasons going full retard to brown nose the yanks and yids.
Its disgusting really.
joe on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 9:01 am
Personally I think it’s a smart move by Teresa May. Out of the EU means out of the EUSSR that the socialists and pseudo-neo-commies want the EU/Russian energy market to be. In their perfect world, the EU would economically unite with Russia and Asia as far as Iran, to secure a market that China must bow to supply. It’s not going to work out that way though.
joe on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 9:11 am
Many people can’t see the reality. For some people its simple. Russia murdered the family of the cousin of the Royal family. Its a blood vendetta. Somehow the rump of the USSR survived and was reborn under Putin. The deal was that Russia would adopt democracy and market reform and open itself up. If NATO broke the deal it was because Russia never took reform seriously. The politburo might be gone but the kgb survived almost intact and the political scene never really changed. Communism might be dead but Russia is still a threat. The prospect of a pro Russian EUSSR emerging in Europe when Brexit happens is a serious risk, Cloggie is not wrong about that, but in my opinion it will try to create a balance of power between the US and Russia with itself in control. Its a policy doomed to fail it will the EU with no choice but to militarize itself and become an plutocracy, with a mere facade of democracy.
fmr-paultard on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 9:15 am
joe i’m a tard, you’re a tard. you want to see the “trooth” that you feel is important. the difference here is that i see all “trooths”.
the biggest mystery in modern democracies is that why tard don’t just migrate to moscow and drink to their deaths as did the Cambridge Five. They’re here enjoying safe electricity and the intarweb that supertards built for me to enjoy and use it to recruit my supertards as cambridge five.
they went on endlessly about this dictator putin is great and xi is great and erdogan and iran.
that’s ok. we recruit their politically persecuted enemies in those dictatorship and go after you tards.
you never know what coming for you.
fmr-paultard on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 9:21 am
there’s no collusion, no secret oaths, no alliance, no secret socities. the religion of supertard worship requires supertards to be in posession of multiple kel-tec 2000 automatic weapons and 5000 rounds for self defense. all expenses paid by collecting a zakat from tard worshippers of supertards.
in return we only _HOPE_ supertards continue to give us safe electrictiy, intardweb, and all the goodness …we give supertards our most sincere appreciation.
now why don’t you tards go worship at the altard of putin and xi
i mean now 4 terms and rule for life.
nothing wrong with that. nothing at all???
Boat on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 10:22 am
Not that it matters but why use a nerve agent that is rare to kill instead of something common and harder to trace.
Antius on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 10:22 am
In Britain, even the façade of democracy is disappearing.
Members of opposition political groups are now treated as criminals and locked up accordingly. Right wing political groups are routinely outlawed as terrorists. One can be arrested and imprisoned simply for voicing controversial political opinions or simply on suspicion of being associated with someone that the corrupt government has ordained to be Non Grata.
At the same time, the UK is one of the most surveyed states on Earth, with intelligence services having unlimited power to spy on their own people; more cameras per capita than anywhere else on Earth and web providers forbidden from sharing information on any requests for personal information.
The situation is clearly intolerable to anyone that cares at all about personal freedom. The UK isn’t moving towards being a totalitarian state; it is one already. It is every bit as totalitarian as China. UK people are apathetic and all too happy to bury their heads in the sand. That so many are prepared to tolerate this says much about our collective mentality. A man that willingly submits to autocracy deserves no freedom and deserves contempt.
Steve on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 10:29 am
As Tom Luongo points out, why would the “Russian” assassins use a signature Russian nerve gas, whose formula is in the public domain, rather than a gun or knife? tomluongo.me/2018/03/14/the-neocon-full-court-press-for-war-is-here/
Very appropriate “How To” movie: youtu.be/doFpACkiZ2Q
We’re being manipulated!
MASTERMIND on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 11:25 am
Nationalist
You dont’ think the US and are allies can defeat Russia and their antique 1980’s military? We just kicked their asses in Syria last week.
Steve on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 11:51 am
Ahh, the “madness of crowds”. We are being manipulated! Think Colin Powell and his little vial of white powder. Another rush to judgement. Please consider: https://tinyurl.com/4swpgv and https://tinyurl.com/yddj9k67
Kenz300 on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 12:05 pm
One more reason to move to sustainable energy sources like wind and solar. No imports needed.
There is something to be said for self sufficiency.
Anonymouse1 on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 3:33 pm
sTfU kenZdumbass.
There is something to be said for give it a rest dumbass.
Cloggie on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 3:46 pm
Between all the opinions, here perhaps some facts interjected, I know, boring:
https://www.britishgas.co.uk/the-source/our-world-of-energy/energys-grand-journey/where-does-uk-gas-come-from
44% gas from continental European pipelines. Interesting in the light of Brexit.
Cloggie on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 3:48 pm
Not all UK-MPs are convinced Russia did it.
https://www.rt.com/uk/421544-russia-innocent-skripal-nerve/
rockman on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 4:10 pm
Boat – “Not that it matters but why use a nerve agent that is rare to kill instead of something common and harder to trace.” Exactly. I can see 3 hypotheticals. Not rating the probability of any one.
1)Putin/Russian govt did it. And did it in a manner that would make sure the world knew Putin ordered it. Why? Make up your own answer. If Putin wanted him dead and not have hard evidence pointing at him it could have been easily done.
2)Some Russian nationalist group was behind it. And pissed Putin off by his getting the blame.
3)Some foreign actor got the agent from the black market with the intent of the world blaming Putin/Russia. IOW Putin has been framed.
rockman on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 4:15 pm
Boat – IMHO Putin is being framed or he definitely wanted the world to know he was behind. Nothing else makes sense. If Putin wanted him dead without evidence pointing at him it could have been easily done.
rockman on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 4:20 pm
Cloggie – “We also import 44% of the gas we use via pipelines from Europe and Norway. The remaining 13% comes in to the UK by tankers in the form of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).” Pipelines and LNG tankers don’t produce NG…they transport it. Where are the wells that produce that 57% of UK imports?
MASTERMIND on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 4:28 pm
Shell forecasts global Natural Gas supply shortage in mid-2020s
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/shell-warns-of-lng-shortage-as-demand-for-liquefied-natural-gas-booms.html
Chevron expects global Natural Gas supply shortage by 2025
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chevron-lng/chevron-expects-lng-supply-shortage-by-2025-idUSKCN1GI2EH
MASTERMIND on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 4:42 pm
Rockman
It was an obvious false flag to frame Putin…they have to make shit up so when we nuke him and his trashy russian citizens we look justified. The US and NATO already have their missile defense shields on Putins border. This is all Putins fault he should have never got involved in the middle east and joined up with Iran and Syria. That is our area to exploit and he should have minded his own damn business..Now he is going down hard.
Anonymouse1 on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 5:30 pm
Narrativeman
1)You are beyond stupid. Truely. At least when you’re shilling for the cancer cartel, your boring tales from the cancer patch have a thin veneer of plausibility. When you go outside your scripts, the results are always embarrassing. Like your stupid speculation of yours about ‘Putins’ motives and non-existent ‘Russian nationalists’ trying to frame President Putin(wow). Even the Lame-stream media couldn’t come up with something that stupid. Well done.
2)Boatieatard is(another) clinically retarded bible-thump’n texASS moron, that couldn’t find Russia, or anywhere else for that matter, if you drew him a picture. He has no idea what is even being discussed, or why it would matter. You could explain all this to your family dog, and it would understand with greater depth and clarity than boatieatd ever could.
Kat C on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 5:46 pm
It amazes me how many people think that personal insults qualify as a discussion. What they do is reveal that the one handing out the insults doesn’t really have anything relevant to say.
Kat C on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 5:51 pm
https://www.britishgas.co.uk/the-source/our-world-of-energy/energys-grand-journey/where-does-uk-gas-come-from
As far as who done it MoonofAlabama is on top of that
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/03/theresa-mays-novichok-claims-fall-apart.html
“The former Soviet scientist, Vil Mirzanyanov, who ‘blew the whistle’ and wrote about the ‘Novichoks’, now lives in a $1 million home in the United States. The AFP news agency just interviewed him about the recent incident:
Mirzayanov, speaking at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, said he is convinced Russia carried it out as a way of intimidating opponents of President Vladimir Putin.
“Only the Russians” developed this class of nerve agents, said the chemist. “They kept it and are still keeping it in secrecy.”
The only other possibility, he said, would be that someone used the formulas in his book to make such a weapon.
“Russia did it”, says Mirzanyanov, “OR SOMEONE WHO READ MY BOOK”.”
MASTERMIND on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 7:32 pm
The ‘American Century’ Is Over, and It Died in Syria
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-08/the-american-century-is-over-putin-and-assad-killed-it
Antius on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 7:58 pm
In real terms, the American century ended in 1973. It just took another 40 years for the world to realise it. That is about the time US productivity growth stopped. It was also about the time they got their arses kicked in Vietnam.
US interest rates have plunged pretty much constantly since 1980. This is basically an attempt to keep growth going with financial stimulus, in the face of high energy costs. They managed to keep it up for nearly 40 years – not a bad run. But all such tricks are only temporary. They will tide you over for a little while. But the time has now run out.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 8:33 pm
Russia has ‘enormous’ underground bunkers ready for nuclear war
https://nypost.com/2017/06/29/russia-has-enormous-underground-bunkers-ready-for-nuclear-war/
You can run Putin but you can’t hide!
MASTERMIND on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 9:01 pm
The close alignment between the LTG BAU scenario and observed developments over the last four decades, as well as the correspondence in the underlying dynamics …, portend of potential global collapse. Although the general commentary on the LTG describes collapse occurring sometime mid-century (and the LTG authors stressed not interpreting the time scale too precisely), the BAU scenario implies that a relatively rapid fall in economic conditions and the population could be imminent. Indeed, other aspects of oil supply constraints …, indicate that the ongoing economic downturn of the GFC may be representative of an imminent BAU style collapse. (page 14 – http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf)
GregT on Fri, 16th Mar 2018 11:39 pm
“In real terms, the American century ended in 1973.”
In actually happened earlier than that, most likely around ’62. Both the silver and gold standards in the US were abandoned in 1968, Nixon slammed shut the gold window in 1971, followed by Kissinger and the creation of the petrodollar system in 1974.
Cloggie on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 12:38 am
“The ‘American Century’ Is Over, and It Died in Syria.”
Here is the moment I would propose as the final hour of the empire:
https://goo.gl/images/EymUyA
Kosher fool Berezovsky proposing Putin as the next Russian leader in the assumption the latter would do the bidding of globalisation.
He wouldn’t.
Wallstreet, that had provided the funds to get the 1917 color coded red revolution started by the George Soros du jour Jacob Schiff, lost Russia for a 2nd time in 2000, after they has lost the USSR to Stalin after WW2.
This time the loss is fatal, because unlike in 1945, now the US is irreversibly en route to become an impotent third world country, deeply divided in itself.
#DiversityIsOurDemise
GregT on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 12:58 am
“Berezovsky proposing Putin as the next Russian leader in the assumption the latter would do the bidding of globalization.”
Without a doubt, their greatest undoing, but they aren’t done just quite yet Cloggie. Like I’ve said here many times before, the best thing that could happen for the future of humanity, would be for the empire to go out with a whimper. I don’t see that happening. The masses are far too dumbed down, and the empire still maintains a very large stockpile of WMD. I see another world war in our future, beginning in Iran.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 1:09 am
Greg
You are damn right we wont go out with a whimper! Live free or die bitches! I hope they nuke that fucker Putin back to the stone ages! Just a matter of time before they do. they are manufacturing the consent now through the media, that Putin is evil. and 70 percent of Russian exports is oil and gas and they are peaking soon. So they are fucked either way!
GregT on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 1:19 am
“You are damn right we wont go out with a whimper!”
Like I said above, far too dumbed down.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 1:25 am
I rather be dumb Greg than a Canadian cuck like you! Squealing about the deep state and tax farms. And how we need to go back to the gold standard and the creature from Jekell island. You have gone full circle alex jones and john birch society!
GregT on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 1:45 am
“I rather be dumb Greg than a Canadian cuck like you!”
Well then, it’s reciprocal. I’d rather be a cuck from any tax farm anywhere, than somebody like you who’d rather be dumb.
GregT on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 1:50 am
“Squealing about the deep state and tax farms. And how we need to go back to the gold standard and the creature from Jekell island.
Any idea as to what you guys celebrate on ‘the fourth’ MM?
Davy on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 3:45 am
You guys can talk your empire demise talk but your demise is coming to. It is the demise of affluence. Place like the Netherlands and the West Coast of Canada where there is so much wealth made possible by the events of the twentieth century will likely end. Ending are similar even if for different reasons. So get ready the 3rd world is coming your way too.
GregT on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 3:52 am
“Ending are similar even if for different reasons. So get ready the 3rd world is coming your way too.”
Absolutely it is.
Is that not what you’ve been planning for Davy? Or do you believe that we can maintain first world status, by continuing to rob our children of their futures?
Sorry, offspring.
Davy on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 3:58 am
Is that not what you’ve been planning for Davy? Or do you believe that we can maintain first world status, by continuing to rob our children of their futures?
greggie, what is your point? Spit it out what are trying to get at.
GregT on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 4:08 am
“greggie, what is your point? Spit it out what are trying to get at.”
As resources run out, the first world will be swept into the dustbin of history. 3rd world everywhere, or worse. Also, Eisenhower was correct, if you are not willing to take care of the future of your own “offspring”, then what was the point of living and dying in the first place?
“Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society’s future, we — you and I, and our government — must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”
Those with the most toys when they die, aren’t the winners Davy, they are greedy pricks.
Davy on Sat, 17th Mar 2018 4:17 am
“Those with the most toys when they die, aren’t the winners Davy, they are greedy pricks.”
Greggie, so what is your point? Are you preaching to me?