Russian Gas ban - A problem for Europe or suicide for Russia?

[Erumo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2b_0gfV_4E - clip released by Gazprom. Propaganda or warning ?

[WatChe]

It is also no longer 1940s when the Europeans can expand their own crisis to the rest of the world and call it World War.
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May be its becasue of this there is interesting development going on between Iran and Pakistan as Iran offered Pakistan to complete much delayed gas pipeline. This gas pipeline can solve Pakistan energy crisis but only due to usa pressure Pakistan is not completing this project. The result is energy crisis and huge prices of electricity.
While on one side EU are asking Russia to resume gas supply and on other hand they creating hurdles worldwide on such project's which can solve other countries energy crisis.
This summer price of electricity is increased further and we pay almost 20 to 30 percent as electricity bill of our earnings. If Pakistan buy cheap electricity and gas from Iran much of our electricity issues can be resolved.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/993365/iran-offers-completion-of-gas-pipeline-project-with-pakistan/

[pooya87]

May be its becasue of this there is interesting development going on between Iran and Pakistan as Iran offered Pakistan to complete much delayed gas pipeline. This gas pipeline can solve Pakistan energy crisis but only due to usa pressure Pakistan is not completing this project. The result is energy crisis and huge prices of electricity.
While on one side EU are asking Russia to resume gas supply and on other hand they creating hurdles worldwide on such project's which can solve other countries energy crisis.
This summer price of electricity is increased further and we pay almost 20 to 30 percent as electricity bill of our earnings. If Pakistan buy cheap electricity and gas from Iran much of our electricity issues can be resolved.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/993365/iran-offers-completion-of-gas-pipeline-project-with-pakistan/

Hopefully. I don't see any reason for Pakistan to face an energy crisis when their neighbor in the west has the biggest supply of gas and oil in the whole world. All they have to do is to stop letting a foreign country dictate their policies. Although I'm not that familiar with Pakistan politics but it looked like Imran Khan was working towards more independence before he was removed from office in a suspicious way.

I'm hopeful for the future though. A lot of things are changing like the news you shared. So far the Eastern Bloc is working a lot better than before (eg. pre-WW) and based on mutual benefits. Some countries like Turkey that played the middle are screwed but everyone else seems to be finding their sides already.

[Sithara007]

May be its becasue of this there is interesting development going on between Iran and Pakistan as Iran offered Pakistan to complete much delayed gas pipeline. This gas pipeline can solve Pakistan energy crisis but only due to usa pressure Pakistan is not completing this project. The result is energy crisis and huge prices of electricity.
While on one side EU are asking Russia to resume gas supply and on other hand they creating hurdles worldwide on such project's which can solve other countries energy crisis.
This summer price of electricity is increased further and we pay almost 20 to 30 percent as electricity bill of our earnings. If Pakistan buy cheap electricity and gas from Iran much of our electricity issues can be resolved.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/993365/iran-offers-completion-of-gas-pipeline-project-with-pakistan/

The original plan (which was suggested two decades ago) was to transfer Iranian gas to India through Pakistan. If this project was implemented, it would have been immensely beneficial for Pakistan, as they will get billions of USD in transit fees in addition to extremely cheap Iranian natural gas. It got stuck after the terrorist incidents in India and as the relations between both the countries got cold. Iranian gas gets wasted (flared) now, as they don't have any pipelines or LNG terminals to export it to other countries.

[be.open]

Nothing will work out between Pakistan and India - the so called terrorist or the freedom fighter would not let that happen.
Pakistan and India are never a peace with each other.
and the history will stay the same for every!

Never is too long by historical standards. Practice shows that it is possible to both make friends and quarrel any two countries within 30 years (in a generation and a half).

[DrBeer]

I will not even provide links to primary sources - this information is published by all of Europe, and even some media outlets of the country of the world-terrorist

I believe it is not a suicide for Russia, Russia was powerful and still they are in a very powerful position.
It was a bad decision of EU and USA for imposing a ban of them - to destablizie Russia and they all fell in the pit they were digging for Russia

 

"Great Russia", "Russia has a powerful economy" - these are all fakes. However, like her whole history and "achievements". I will explain very briefly - a country that for 30 years, having, in its own words, the largest reserves of minerals, the best education and, in general, everything that can be flattered to be said about the country, allegedly has done NOTHING for its people and your country! But during this time she managed to destroy a huge number of her citizens, moreover, by direct terror and murders, unleash almost 2 dozen military conflicts, including creating at the expense of the territory of Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, the cesspool of the "Russian world", and become an embittered, degraded territory controlled by kleptomaniac terrorists. Do you seriously think that this is what GREAT and POWER looks like?

Now the Ukrainian army (which is many times smaller and weaker, as a minimum of the declared power of the "second army of the world") is destroying the "second army of the world" armed with "weapons, the analogues of which will not appear in the world for several decades"! Understand - everything they say about themselves is either nonsense, or lies, or all in one word - Russian propaganda
Sanctions have not yet essentially begun to take effect, and GREAT RUSSIA is begging for UAVs from Iran, and shells from North Korea, and its economy is already starting to crumble! The economy is purely resource-based, and 90% dependent on Western technologies! Return to reality, do not watch the propaganda of the pro-Russian media for a couple of days and see how the world will sparkle with the colors of REALITY

[Sithara007]

Nothing will work out between Pakistan and India - the so called terrorist or the freedom fighter would not let that happen.
Pakistan and India are never a peace with each other.
and the history will stay the same for every!

If the project was implemented, then it could have been beneficial for everyone. Pakistan is thinking that they should not proceed with the project because India will benefit from cheap gas. On the other hand, India thinks that it needs to deprive Pakistan from billions of USD worth of transit fees. And in the end both the countries will suffer from shortage of gas and funds. And Iran becomes the collateral casualty, as they can't export their gas to anyone. Some of the private firms from India were interested, but in the end they decided that the potential risk was too high.

[beej]

I will not even provide links to primary sources - this information is published by all of Europe, and even some media outlets of the country of the world-terrorist

I believe it is not a suicide for Russia, Russia was powerful and still they are in a very powerful position.
It was a bad decision of EU and USA for imposing a ban of them - to destablizie Russia and they all fell in the pit they were digging for Russia

It’s true, I have an old colleague who now resides in Russia for several
years. During the ban and departure of western brands and services,
she told me everything was ok there. Although what we hear and see
on the news is a bit different, they have a somewhat optimistic
approach on adjusting over there. Not everyone agrees on the this
but I was surprise to learn that Russia is prepared, they anticipated
stuff thats going on in regards to the war and it’s continuing aftermath.
Whether we agree with or despise Russia for it’s actions and decisions
towards Ukraine and Europe, it is still undeniable the power and
influence they hold towards the world and economies everywhere.

[pooya87]

Iranian gas gets wasted (flared) now,

I don't think it is anymore. The amount of wasted gas used to be high a decade ago but it has been decreasing. In fact a couple of years ago the head of NISOC talked about the major ongoing project to zero the amount of gas flares and use that gas for many things including in power plants for electricity generation, in refineries, etc.

Keep in mind that Iran with its 90 million population is also one of the biggest gas consumers.

[WatChe]

Hopefully. I don't see any reason for Pakistan to face an energy crisis when their neighbor in the west has the biggest supply of gas and oil in the whole world. All they have to do is to stop letting a foreign country dictate their policies. Although I'm not that familiar with Pakistan politics but it looked like Imran Khan was working towards more independence before he was removed from office in a suspicious way.

I'm hopeful for the future though. A lot of things are changing like the news you shared. So far the Eastern Bloc is working a lot better than before (eg. pre-WW) and based on mutual benefits. Some countries like Turkey that played the middle are screwed but everyone else seems to be finding their sides already.

Imran khan was removed from power just to bring back the pro USA politicians back in power i.e. Shahbaz Sharif and Asif Zardari. The regime change operation was done by Pakistan army. Majority of people here support imran khan and it seems that sooner or later the people will lose temper against these puppets of usa and we have a revolution like we have in Iran. Other then that there is no hope.

The original plan (which was suggested two decades ago) was to transfer Iranian gas to India through Pakistan. If this project was implemented, it would have been immensely beneficial for Pakistan, as they will get billions of USD in transit fees in addition to extremely cheap Iranian natural gas. It got stuck after the terrorist incidents in India and as the relations between both the countries got cold. Iranian gas gets wasted (flared) now, as they don't have any pipelines or LNG terminals to export it to other countries.

It was originally IPI (iran Pakistan india) and proposed back in mid 90s. India backed out since they don't wanna get dependent on Pakistan for its energy supplies. Moreover usa offered India nuclear deal as an alternative to this deal. There are many reasons for India quitting this project but Pakistan should have finished it by now to meet its energy needs.
 I merely escaped a heart attack after seeing my electricity bill of last month.

[Sithara007]

Iranian gas gets wasted (flared) now,

I don't think it is anymore. The amount of wasted gas used to be high a decade ago but it has been decreasing. In fact a couple of years ago the head of NISOC talked about the major ongoing project to zero the amount of gas flares and use that gas for many things including in power plants for electricity generation, in refineries, etc.

Keep in mind that Iran with its 90 million population is also one of the biggest gas consumers.

It is good to hear that the gas is not wasted.

Here in India we are almost completely dependent on LNG cargoes from Qatar. And they are making insane profits now, by jacking up the prices by 10x or 20x. If that damn pipeline was completed on time, then we would have been in much better condition. I guess back then no one actually imagined that gas producing countries such as Qatar would resort to blackmail.

It was originally IPI (iran Pakistan india) and proposed back in mid 90s. India backed out since they don't wanna get dependent on Pakistan for its energy supplies. Moreover usa offered India nuclear deal as an alternative to this deal. There are many reasons for India quitting this project but Pakistan should have finished it by now to meet its energy needs.
 I merely escaped a heart attack after seeing my electricity bill of last month.

In short Indians are suffering as a result of proxy war between US and Iran. Electricity bills are going up everywhere are yours is not an isolated scenario. Fortunately, here in India we didn't closed down all of our coal and nuclear powerplants as demanded by loonies such as Greta Thunberg.

[DrBeer]

Here in India we are almost completely dependent on LNG cargoes from Qatar. And they are making insane profits now, by jacking up the prices by 10x or 20x. If that damn pipeline was completed on time, then we would have been in much better condition. I guess back then no one actually imagined that gas producing countries such as Qatar would resort to blackmail.

...what an unfair world!
And tell me - do you happen to know what is the reason for the gas collapse in the market?

But all this will be fixed, soon India will also be able to buy gas for a penny from the world's hole, which will simply have nowhere to put gas.

Just for information - after an absolutely artificial acceleration of prices, in the second half of August (although the process actually began earlier), through economic terrorist blackmail by Russia, now the price of gas has begun to decline. Exactly like oil. You can lie for a long time, you can write propaganda nonsense for a long time, you can try to terrorize the world, but sooner or later this comes to an end. So it happened with the gas terror. There are enough suppliers, but it’s a little difficult to switch abruptly, but this can be solved in 2-3 years maximum ... In the meantime, at the hub in the Netherlands, the price of gas has already fallen by almost 18% in a couple of days. This is a fact, and unlike Russian propaganda, it is easily verifiable In a word - hold out a little, and India will also use the resources of the destroyed under-empire for a penny

[coupable]

Nothing will work out between Pakistan and India - the so called terrorist or the freedom fighter would not let that happen.
Pakistan and India are never a peace with each other.
and the history will stay the same for every!

Never is too long by historical standards. Practice shows that it is possible to both make friends and quarrel any two countries within 30 years (in a generation and a half).

Russians have survived the whole world sanctions - they have won the war against Ukraine and they have survived the sanctions - emerged as a strong nation - what else you want to listen about Russia?

Russia is playing with fire.
Stopping the pumping of gas has a cost on the mechanisms that work to pump the gas and on the pipes that transport that gas. It means the gas that is not pumped into the distribution pipelines will be wasted without any benefit. Russia cannot continue to impose these sanctions without having alternatives to using the extracted gas.

[Sithara007]

...what an unfair world!
And tell me - do you happen to know what is the reason for the gas collapse in the market?

But all this will be fixed, soon India will also be able to buy gas for a penny from the world's hole, which will simply have nowhere to put gas.

Just for information - after an absolutely artificial acceleration of prices, in the second half of August (although the process actually began earlier), through economic terrorist blackmail by Russia, now the price of gas has begun to decline. Exactly like oil. You can lie for a long time, you can write propaganda nonsense for a long time, you can try to terrorize the world, but sooner or later this comes to an end. So it happened with the gas terror. There are enough suppliers, but it’s a little difficult to switch abruptly, but this can be solved in 2-3 years maximum ... In the meantime, at the hub in the Netherlands, the price of gas has already fallen by almost 18% in a couple of days. This is a fact, and unlike Russian propaganda, it is easily verifiable In a word - hold out a little, and India will also use the resources of the destroyed under-empire for a penny

I don't know what you are talking about. I am looking at the prices, and I don't see any real decrease in the natural gas prices. Dutch TTF gas is still trading at $2,385 per thousand cubic meter, which is more than 20 times the price we had in 2020. Do you really think that this is cheap? Maybe cheap for Europeans, but definitely not for us Asians. And you can claim that a few days back gas was trading at $3,500-$4,000 per kcu.m, and now it is slightly cheaper. But this will change if Russians stop transporting gas through the Ukraine pipeline.

[be.open]

Russians have survived the whole world sanctions - they have won the war against Ukraine and they have survived the sanctions - emerged as a strong nation - what else you want to listen about Russia?

Is that harsh Pakistani sarcasm?

[DrBeer]

...what an unfair world!
And tell me - do you happen to know what is the reason for the gas collapse in the market?

But all this will be fixed, soon India will also be able to buy gas for a penny from the world's hole, which will simply have nowhere to put gas.

Just for information - after an absolutely artificial acceleration of prices, in the second half of August (although the process actually began earlier), through economic terrorist blackmail by Russia, now the price of gas has begun to decline. Exactly like oil. You can lie for a long time, you can write propaganda nonsense for a long time, you can try to terrorize the world, but sooner or later this comes to an end. So it happened with the gas terror. There are enough suppliers, but it’s a little difficult to switch abruptly, but this can be solved in 2-3 years maximum ... In the meantime, at the hub in the Netherlands, the price of gas has already fallen by almost 18% in a couple of days. This is a fact, and unlike Russian propaganda, it is easily verifiable In a word - hold out a little, and India will also use the resources of the destroyed under-empire for a penny

I don't know what you are talking about. I am looking at the prices, and I don't see any real decrease in the natural gas prices. Dutch TTF gas is still trading at $2,385 per thousand cubic meter, which is more than 20 times the price we had in 2020. Do you really think that this is cheap? Maybe cheap for Europeans, but definitely not for us Asians. And you can claim that a few days back gas was trading at $3,500-$4,000 per kcu.m, and now it is slightly cheaper. But this will change if Russians stop transporting gas through the Ukraine pipeline.

Well, I don’t know how to show you even more clearly?

Russians have survived the whole world sanctions - they have won the war against Ukraine and they have survived the sanctions - emerged as a strong nation - what else you want to listen about Russia?

this example will definitely be included in the reference book on practical psychiatry ))))

[coupable]

Nothing will work out between Pakistan and India - the so called terrorist or the freedom fighter would not let that happen.
Pakistan and India are never a peace with each other.
and the history will stay the same for every!

Never is too long by historical standards. Practice shows that it is possible to both make friends and quarrel any two countries within 30 years (in a generation and a half).

Russians have survived the whole world sanctions - they have won the war against Ukraine and they have survived the sanctions - emerged as a strong nation - what else you want to listen about Russia?

It is too early to tell who will be victorious in this confrontation. I would still prefer not to call it war. Each side seeks to save its allies, since the two sides of the conflict are not mainly affected in what looks like a proxy war, even though Russia is in direct confrontation.

[WatChe]

In short Indians are suffering as a result of proxy war between US and Iran. Electricity bills are going up everywhere are yours is not an isolated scenario. Fortunately, here in India we didn't closed down all of our coal and nuclear powerplants as demanded by loonies such as Greta Thunberg.

Can't say how much India is suffering but Pakistan is suffering alot even though its sitting very next to world largest oil and gas reserve country. Buying expensive LNG from Qatar instead of cheap Iran gas, producing expensive electricity from furnace oil but not willing to buy cheap Iran Electricity. All this is because of USA sanctions on Iran and also forcing other countries not to trade with Iran.
Now Europe is facing energy crisis and they must thank USA for that. Just like we are suffering.

[Sithara007]

Can't say how much India is suffering but Pakistan is suffering alot even though its sitting very next to world largest oil and gas reserve country. Buying expensive LNG from Qatar instead of cheap Iran gas, producing expensive electricity from furnace oil but not willing to buy cheap Iran Electricity. All this is because of USA sanctions on Iran and also forcing other countries not to trade with Iran.
Now Europe is facing energy crisis and they must thank USA for that. Just like we are suffering.

Pakistan is close not only to Iran, but also to other major gas producing countries (Turkmenistan for example). But any gas pipeline from Central Asia need to run through Afghanistan or Iran, which once again makes that idea unviable. Pakistan shares direct border with Iran, so it would have been an easy choice to get Iranian gas. But again, the Americans will be offended. Qatar obviously is an American ally and therefore it's economic interests need to be taken care of. On top of that, American companies are involved in the Qatari LNG production.

[coupable]

In short Indians are suffering as a result of proxy war between US and Iran. Electricity bills are going up everywhere are yours is not an isolated scenario. Fortunately, here in India we didn't closed down all of our coal and nuclear powerplants as demanded by loonies such as Greta Thunberg.

Can't say how much India is suffering but Pakistan is suffering alot even though its sitting very next to world largest oil and gas reserve country. Buying expensive LNG from Qatar instead of cheap Iran gas, producing expensive electricity from furnace oil but not willing to buy cheap Iran Electricity. All this is because of USA sanctions on Iran and also forcing other countries not to trade with Iran.
Now Europe is facing energy crisis and they must thank USA for that. Just like we are suffering.

The scene today is very absurd: we have an alliance of Western countries led by America that imposes pressure on all the countries of the opposite alliance, which includes Russia, China and Iran with several allies. Russia confronts them in Ukraine, China through the Taiwan file, and Iran in the nuclear file.
In spite of all the pressures imposed on the Eastern Alliance, the countries most affected by these pressures are the Western countries in place with those sanctions.
America is opening up war fields in more than one direction, and this will not be in its interest or in the interest of any of its allies .