{"id":1910,"date":"2022-10-12T18:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2022-10-12T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:45:52","slug":"putin-warns-europe-lng-from-us-would-be-too-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/1910\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin warns Europe LNG from US would be too expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US liquefied natural gas (LNG) is definitely less competitive than Russian pipeline gas due to its higher price,” the Russian president said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who benefit the most from the damage caused to the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea are the ones responsible for it, Russian President Vladmir Putin has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverybody understands who is behind this and who is the beneficiary. One can now force the liquefied natural gas from the US on to European countries on a much larger scale,\u201d Putin said in a speech at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow on Wednesday, according to Russia Today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president pointed out that US liquefied natural gas (LNG) is \u201cdefinitely less competitive than Russian pipeline gas\u201d due to its higher price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, Putin said, \u201call the facts have been proven and documented. And the ideologues and the sponsors of those crimes are their eventual beneficiaries; those, who profit from instability and conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho stands behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines? Obviously, those who are looking to completely sever the ties between Russia and the EU, undermine Europe’s political sovereignty, weaken its industrial capacity and gain control of its markets,\u201d the Russian president also said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are also those who \u201chave the technical capacity to carry out such explosions and have already resorted to such sabotage – were caught red-handed while doing so, but avoided liability,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to the EU via Germany, abruptly lost pressure on September 26, following a series of powerful underwater explosions off the Danish island of Bornholm. The ruptures, which are widely considered to be the result of sabotage, led to massive gas leaks and made them inoperable. Moscow later said that one of the lines of Nord Stream 2 remained unaffected and offered to supply gas to Europe through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to RT report, the Western media has speculated that Russia could have blown up its own pipelines to put the EU under even more pressure amid the energy crisis. Moscow has denied such claims, with Putin saying earlier that \u201cthe Anglo-Saxons,\u201d a colloquialism for the US-UK alliance, could have been behind what the Russian side described as an \u201cact of international terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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