On March 18, 2014, Russia’s annexation of Crimea- formerly of the Ukraine- became official. This move sparked international condemnation, most notably from the Western powers, which threated to retaliate with a series of sanctions against the Russian oil and gas sector. About 80 percent of Russian gas exports to Europe pass through Ukraine; in 2013, […]
Continuing in our series on natural gas markets, I’ll be talking about European markets in this blog. Europe is a large complex continent with many different components and over twenty natural gas markets contained within the region. Therefore, there are a lot of different forces that affect European markets. The biggest forces at present that […]