Vladimir Putin has struck a deal with the Iranian regime to tap into a recently-discovered gas field in the Caspian Sea, sparking fears Moscow will soon have complete control over Europe’s energy market.
According to the terms of the deal, the multi-trillion-dollar Chalous gas field will be carved up between Russian, Chinese and Iranian companies.
Earlier this year, Iran’s Khazar Exploration and Production Company (KEPCO) said the field could hold about 3.5 trillion cubic meters of gas or a quarter of the 14.2 trillion cubic meters of gas found in the South Pars field in the Persian Gulf.
However, financial institutions in Germany, Austria, and Italy are reportedly eyeing up potential investment in the project, which may indicate the field’s reserves are bigger than initially thought.
Russia’s negotiators have managed to secure a majority share in the gas field, despite it sitting within a section of the Caspian Sea controlled by Iran.
The landlocked body of water is estimated to sit on top of some 292 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
A “senior Russian official” who was reportedly involved in negotiating the deal, told OilPrice.com: “This is the final act of securing control over the European energy market.”
Europe relies heavily on third-country imports for energy, with Russia being the biggest supplier of crude oil, gas, and fossil fuels.
According to 2019 data published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), gas accounted for about 27 percent of all energy imports.
And about 41 percent of that gas came from Russia, followed by Norway (16 percent), Algeria (eight percent), and Qatar (five percent).
Eurostat warned: “The stability of the EU’s energy supply may be threatened if a high proportion of imports are concentrated among relatively few external partners.”
This threat was highlighted in recent months after the global energy crunch caused gas prices across Europe to hit record highs, prompting fears of a full-blown energy crisis this winter.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of exacerbating the issue to gain political leverage over the economic bloc.
In particular, Moscow was said to “weaponize” gas supplies to push through the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which runs directly to Germany and bypasses Poland and Ukraine.
President Putin has said earlier this year that approving the pipeline would be an “obvious” way of stabilizing the market.
He said: “Of course, if we could expand supplies along this route, then, 100 percent, I can say with absolute certainty, the tension on the European energy market would significantly decline, and that would influence prices, of course.”
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After Trump made USA energy independent… which also stopped wars in the process, the elite globalist satanist have strung up their puppet JB to actually make USA dependent again on foreign oil and gas which means we can not help any countries in need of deliverance from the axis states, China, Russia, and Iran and we also will be under their influence and this plan will be to make sure USA finally goes to the poor house. The globalist want war since they feel they will be safe in their mountain bunkers already prepared and it seems will be more than happy to make JB or whatever other puppet takes over to instigate war. Of course I hope I am wrong on this but unless those at the top are reeled in it does not look good for free societies, if they add the small pox threat to the mix; well it’s not good.