By Rhod Mackenzie The International Gas Union (IGU), the trade association representing the global gas industry, cautions about the possibility of diminishing gas supplies in upcoming decades without further investment. The repercussions of such a drop in supply are clear, particularly the price shocks that have affected the planet and particularly Europe for the past […]
By Rhod Mackenzie Russia is concerned about the reports of damage to the gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, especially given the terrorist attacks previously against the Nord Stream pipelines. The Finnish authorities have not ruled out the possibility of sabotage, while some in the West speculate this could be retaliation by Russia. The question […]
By Rhod Mackenzie For the first time, Brussels announced with pride that it was ahead of schedule for the filling of the underground gas storage facilities (UGS) for the upcoming winter in August. By the end of summer, the UGS had reached 90% of their total capacity, which was the mandated requirement set by the […]
By Rhod Mackenzie The refusal of Russian gas by many European nations last year, coupled with the resulting energy crisis, compelled Europeans to seek out “blue fuel” from around the globe, despite its high transport costs or price. The augmented demand for gas not only rendered the European gas market appealing to traders from every […]
F. William Engdahl | Meet the arch-globalist who is steering the current world economic calamity.
21WIRE | Some EU countries are now openly rebelling over the collective economic suicide pact they signed on to, at the behest of Washington.
By Salman Rafi Sheikh – NEO – 16.03.2022 When the US President Joe Biden announced, on March 8, his decision to ban imports of Russian oil and gas to the US, he opened up a potential business opportunity for the US LNG gas business to expand further into Europe and beyond. While Biden’s decision does […]
RT | March 14, 2022 Japanese trading houses, Mitsui and Mitsubishi, are reportedly not considering quitting Russia’s Sakhalin-2 project, that is focused on producing and shipping liquified natural gas (LNG), 60% of which is destined for the Japanese market. The Japanese trading giants, which hold a total stake of 22,5% in Sakhalin-2, will remain partners […]
Joe Biden is not President of the United States. He may reside in the White House, and he certainly was seen taking the Presidential Oath of Office on January 20th, but his actual personal investment in the Office of the Presidency is null and void. He is there; he seems fairly aware that he is […]
In January 2018 I advanced the hypothesis that U.S. President Trump understood that the only way to “Make American Great Again” was to disentangle it from the imperial mission that had it stuck in perpetual wars. I suggested that the cutting of this “Gordian Knot of entanglements” was difficult, even impossible, to accomplish from his end and that he understood that the cutting could only come from the other side.
