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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is in talks with major energy-producing countries and companies around the world over a potential diversion of supplies to Europe if Russia invades Ukraine, senior Biden administration officials said on Tuesday.
speaking to reporters on a call, the officials did not name the specific countries or companies they were in talks with to ensure an uninterrupted energy flow into europe for the remainder of the winter, but said they included a broad range of suppliers, including sellers of liquefied natural gas (lng).
Reuters reported contingency plans for supplying natural gas to europe if conflict between russia and ukraine disrupts russian supplies, earlier this month that state department officials were discussing contingency plans with energy companies to ensure stable supplies to europe if conflict between russia and ukraine disrupted russian supplie
"we've been working to identify additional volumes of non- russian natural gas from various areas of the world; from north africa and the middle east to asia and the united states," a senior administration official said on condition of anonymity.
"Correspondingly, we're ... in discussions with major natural gas producers around the globe to understand their capacity and willingness to temporarily surge natural gas output and to allocate these volumes to European buyers," the official said.
The White House's plan is complicated by the fact that the world's LNG producers are already churning out as much as they possibly can. Reuters reported https://www.reuters.com/business/en...upply-case-russia-ukraine-conflict-2022-01-15 that the companies contacted told the U.S. government officials that global gas supplies are tight and that there is little available to substitute large volumes from Russia.
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speaking to reporters on a call, the officials did not name the specific countries or companies they were in talks with to ensure an uninterrupted energy flow into europe for the remainder of the winter, but said they included a broad range of suppliers, including sellers of liquefied natural gas (lng).
Reuters reported contingency plans for supplying natural gas to europe if conflict between russia and ukraine disrupts russian supplies, earlier this month that state department officials were discussing contingency plans with energy companies to ensure stable supplies to europe if conflict between russia and ukraine disrupted russian supplie
"we've been working to identify additional volumes of non- russian natural gas from various areas of the world; from north africa and the middle east to asia and the united states," a senior administration official said on condition of anonymity.
"Correspondingly, we're ... in discussions with major natural gas producers around the globe to understand their capacity and willingness to temporarily surge natural gas output and to allocate these volumes to European buyers," the official said.
The White House's plan is complicated by the fact that the world's LNG producers are already churning out as much as they possibly can. Reuters reported https://www.reuters.com/business/en...upply-case-russia-ukraine-conflict-2022-01-15 that the companies contacted told the U.S. government officials that global gas supplies are tight and that there is little available to substitute large volumes from Russia.
Read more
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...to-supply-to-europe-if-russia-invades-ukraine
