Energy expert: Egypt and the UAE are not healing from the European gas crisis

According to the report of the International Economy Group of Fars News Agency, “Boris Martsinkovic, an energy expert, talked about how realistic Europe’s plan to cut gas supplies from Russia is and how much liquefied gas fuel Egypt and the UAE could export to Europe.

Martsinkovic, who is the responsible director of the “Geo Energetica” website specializing in energy affairs, saidWego With Russia Elium In response to a question about the capabilities of the UAE and Egypt in exporting liquefied gas to Europe, he pointed out the obstacles related to infrastructure and the lack of sufficient gas tankers in the world due to the demand for liquefied gas.

This energy expert said: The UAE and Egypt should increase their capacity to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG), although Egypt has two LNG plants that are not working at full capacity, but there are obstacles in the field of infrastructure; In addition to the lack of sufficient number of gas tankers, as most tankers are booked several years in advance.

Martsinkovic added: In the next two to three years, the UAE and Egypt each have a vision to export 6 million tons of liquefied gas per year (12 million tons of liquefied gas is equivalent to about 16 billion cubic meters of gas per year).

This energy expert rejected the ability of the UAE, Egypt, Algeria and Azerbaijan to compensate for Russia’s gas exports to Europe, the ability of these countries to completely replace the import of hydro fuel from Russia and said: Russia will export about 155 billion cubic meters of gas in 2021. Is; Knowing that Europe consumes about 300 billion cubic meters of gas.

He clarified: The capacity of the gas pipeline from Shah Square Denise The Republic of Azerbaijan has 16 billion cubic meters per year, of which 10 billion cubic meters are allocated to southern European countries this year, and the rest is intended for consumers in Turkey, and there is no possibility to increase gas flow to Europe in this way. , unless this gas is no longer sent to Turkey, which is unlikely, especially since the Turkish economy has also shown signs of growth.

This expert continued: Regarding Algeria, yes, there is an opportunity to increase the gas supply to Italy from this country, but at the same time, we are witnessing a crisis in the relations between Algeria and Spain, which may lose Algerian gas at any time.

Regarding Germany’s plans to build stations to receive liquefied gas in order to reduce dependence on Russian gas, Martsinkovic said: These efforts may be opposed by environmentalists, and the construction of stations of this type will take two to three years, so a change Create in the next heating season (winter next year). will not Note that the amount of LPG in the world is limited, so building LPG stations makes no sense.

Regarding the importance of the European energy market for Russia, this expert pointed to the statements of Russian leaders who said that due to Russia’s orientation towards Asian markets with high economic growth, this market (Europe) will not be very important until 2030.

Emphasizing that Europe in general and Germany in particular cannot get rid of Russian gas in the next seven to eight years, this expert emphasized: Europe has one way to completely get rid of Russian gas and that is to destroy the industry. is itself As a result, the demand for water fuel will decrease.

Martsinkovic stressed that the EU has begun to phase out its coal-free green energy as it begins to return to traditional energy sources, particularly coal, in its efforts to reduce dependence on Russian gas.

Last month, the European Union and the Zionist regime signed a tripartite agreement with Egypt in Cairo with the aim of transferring gas from the Zionist regime to Europe by passing through Egypt. Tareq Al-MullaEgypt’s oil minister says that his country exports 500 million cubic feet of natural gas to Europe every day.

France and the United Arab Emirates also signed an energy cooperation agreement last Monday to ensure the supply of natural gas.

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