From Washington to Berlin, politicians have taken unprecedented stances and are debating how to replace Russian supplies. The United States and the United Kingdom recently banned Russian energy exports and the European Union announced it will cut gas imports from Russia by two-thirds this year amid caution that the chess moves should not do more harm to themselves than they do to Putin.
Currently, Russia supplies about a third of Europe’s crude oil imports and 90 percent of the gas used in the EU is imported. Most gas supplies come through pipelines including Yamal-Europe, which crosses Belarus and Poland to Germany, Nord Stream 1, which goes directly to Germany via the Baltic Sea, and via Ukraine. Part of the answer will be for Europe to stop looking east to Russia and start looking south to Africa. The continent of Africa has substantial natural gas production, reserves, and new discoveries in the process of being tapped.
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