Russia In The European Energy Sector

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Russia has a significant role in the European energy sector as the largest exporter of oil and natural gas to the European Union. In 2007, the European Union imported from Russia 185 million tonnes of crude oil, which accounted for 32.6% of total oil import, and 100.7 million tonnes of oil equivalent of natural gas, which accounted 38.7% of total gas import. In 2007, 38.7% of the European Union's natural gas total imports and 24.3% of consumed natural gas originated from Russia. Russian natural gas is delivered to Europe through 12 pipelines, of which three pipelines are direct pipelines (to Finland, Estonia and Latvia), four through Belarus (to Lithuania and Poland) and five through Ukraine (to Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Poland). The largest importers of Russian gas in the European Union are Germany and Italy, accounting together almost half of the EU gas import from Russia. Other larger Russian gas importers (over 5 billion cubic meter per year) in the European Union are France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria and Slovakia.

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