Commodities
Europe Threatens to Trigger a Global Scramble for Natural Gas
Loss of Russian pipeline supplies will stoke demand for LNG and could squeeze out poorer emerging nations.
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The world is bracing for a fight for natural gas supplies this year, prolonging the pain of higher bills for consumers and factories in energy-hungry Europe and putting poorer emerging countries from Asia to South America at risk of getting priced out of the market.
For the first time since the energy crisis was turbocharged by Russia’s war in Ukraine, Europe risks failing to meet its storage targets for next winter, setting the stage for one last scramble for supplies before new liquefied natural gas capacity starts to ease the situation next year.