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Spain, France and Belgium are the three biggest importers. The trade was estimated to be worth €16 billion in 2022, with imports down only slightly in 2023.
LNG originating in Russia’s Arctic gas fields is regularly shipped to European ports like Zeebrugge in Belgium and Montoir-de-Bretagne in France, where it is re-gasified and injected into the European gas network or transferred to new ships for re-export to destinations further afield, including China.
It is possible, gas market experts said, that Russian-origin gas molecules arriving in Europe could then enter the U.K. via two cross-Channel gas pipelines that connect Britain’s gas network with mainland Europe and make landfall in Belgium and the Netherlands.
The risk is very small, because the U.K. has only imported small quantities of gas via these pipelines since the war began. Russian LNG also represents a relatively small fraction of overall EU gas supply. Officials at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero argue that it is unlikely Russian-origin gas is currently entering the country, but acknowledge that there is no way to trace the origin of every molecule of gas making its way to the U.K. via the pipelines.
Plus that risk could increase, energy experts said, if there was unexpected disruption to U.K. gas imports from the U.S. or Norway.
“It’s impossible to track individual molecules of gas, and so there’s no way to monitor or guarantee that a Russian molecule re-gasified at a Belgian or French LNG import terminal didn’t make its way through the Interconnector pipeline into the U.K.,” said Alex Froley, LNG market analyst at the Independent Commodity Intelligence Services.

Spain, France and Belgium are the three biggest importers. The trade was estimated to be worth €16 billion in 2022, with imports down only slightly in 2023.
LNG originating in Russia’s Arctic gas fields is regularly shipped to European ports like Zeebrugge in Belgium and Montoir-de-Bretagne in France, where it is re-gasified and injected into the European gas network or transferred to new ships for re-export to destinations further afield, including China.
It is possible, gas market experts said, that Russian-origin gas molecules arriving in Europe could then enter the U.K. via two...

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