UK natural gas imports by country of origin (in 2021)
Country
Natural gas (metric tons)
Norway
1,440,000
United States
92,000
Denmark
45,000
Belgium
45,000
Russia
12,000
France
8,000
That’s not a very high proportion that was coming from Russia even before the invasion.
Maybe demand for Norwegian gas has increased due to other countries that did import a lot from Russia wanting to import from Norway, and that’d have an indirect effect on the UK, depending upon the contractual situation with Norway.
https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog/uk-gas-sources
That’s not a very high proportion that was coming from Russia even before the invasion.
Maybe demand for Norwegian gas has increased due to other countries that did import a lot from Russia wanting to import from Norway, and that’d have an indirect effect on the UK, depending upon the contractual situation with Norway.
This is what I meant.
We is not exclusively the UK, but if other countries are then we (the UK) are indirectly reliant on it not causing everyone else to come for our gas.
We gave away our North Sea resources, and now we are subject to the global market which includes Russia.