Chapter 2717 Natural Gas Dispute

The weather in Europe this year is particularly cold. In December, the average temperature is only 2 degrees, and many places are covered with ice and snow.

After the New Year's holiday, the weather is getting colder and colder. For Europeans, the cold is even more reluctant to do things, so the beginning of the year is lazily ushered in, and it feels a little unmotivated to do anything.

But at this time, the Europeans also ushered in another cold.

After the price increase of natural gas in early 2009, Russia officially announced on January 3 that the price of natural gas supplied to Europe this year will increase by another 18%, reaching US$420 per thousand cubic meters!

As we all know, Europe is a place of energy poverty, especially in developed countries such as Western Europe, where basically all the resources that should be there are almost exhausted, so now they are basically rooted in Africa, absorbing various mineral resources in Africa for your own use.

However, natural gas, a resource related to national economy and people's livelihood, is not available in Africa. European countries need to import natural gas resources from the Middle East and Russia.

The natural gas self-sufficiency rate of European countries is about 30%, and the remaining 30% is imported from several major oil-producing countries in the Middle East, and 40% is imported from Russia.

In fact, Russia is not the country with the largest natural gas reserves in the world, but Iran is. They have 47.80 trillion cubic meters