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US tries to clip Norway’s wings after getting outmaneuvered on EU gas exports Bloomberg has published a soft hit piece targeting Norwegian gas giant Equinor over its ballooning share of the EU’s gas market, claiming the bloc’s newfound reliance on Norway for 30% of its imports is “raising questions” about whether Brussels has again put its energy-related eggs in one basket, and pointing to “fuming” in Brussels about Oslo “benefiting at Europe’s expense” by selling gas at prices higher than Russia’s. 💬 “Norway’s Equinor was asked by the EU to supply more gas to Europe and it has responded well enough. This, however, doesn’t please the US – which has been hoping long before the Ukraine conflict to replace Russian gas supplies with its LNG exports, most of which have been going to the EU,” Dr. Mamdouh G Salameh, an international oil economist and a global energy expert, told Sputnik. Having taken Russia partially out of the picture in 2022 to make room for their own LNG exports, it’s only natural that US business circles are displeased with Norway coming in to pick up the market share left behind by Moscow, the economist said. 💬 “Even before the eruption of the Ukraine conflict, Norway was the second-largest gas supplier to the EU after Russia. Gazprom was the king of gas supplies to the EU, particularly the EU’s largest economy, Germany,” Salameh explained.

“It is an acknowledged historical fact that Europe’s economies, particularly Germany’s, have been built since the 1970s on cheap and plentiful Russian piped gas until the United States conned and pressured the EU to impose sanctions on Russia and ban its oil and gas exports.”

💬 “Mark my words: Once the Ukraine conflict is eventually resolved on President Putin’s terms, Germany and most of the EU countries will resume importing the cheap Russian piped gas to end the financial bleeding resulting from importing the US LNG which has crippled their economy,” Salameh summed up. 👍 Boost us! | Subscribe to @geopolitics_live