{"id":10348,"date":"2022-10-16T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/europe-turns-to-africa-looking-to-diversify-gas-supply"},"modified":"2022-10-16T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:29:00","slug":"europe-turns-to-africa-looking-to-diversify-gas-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/europe-turns-to-africa-looking-to-diversify-gas-supply","title":{"rendered":"Europe turns to Africa looking to diversify gas supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>European countries are looking at Africa\u2019s gas with renewed interest, especially after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, which exposed the need to diversify suppliers of this essential energy for the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent world events are demonstrating the vital role that natural gas can play in the energy security of nations and regions\u201d, commented to the Associated Press the director of oil company BP Gordon Birrell quoted by Lusa, which is developing a gas project liquefied natural gas off the coast of Mauritania and Senegal, which has already received visits from the leaders of Germany and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The project, he added, \u201ccouldn\u2019t come at a better time\u201d, referring to the renewed need that European countries, mainly in central Europe, feel to diversify their sources of gas supply.<\/p>\n<p>The exploitation of these 425 billion cubic meters of gas, five times what Germany consumed in 2019, will not solve Europe\u2019s energy security problems, but it is a sign of the European will to decisively reduce dependence on Russian gas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\">Sierra-Leone<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. European countries are looking at Africa\u2019s gas with renewed interest, especially after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, which exposed the need to diversify suppliers of this essential energy for the continent. \u201cCurrent world events are demonstrating the vital role that natural gas can play in the energy security of nations and regions\u201d, commented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[291,293,292],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Europe turns to Africa looking to diversify gas supply - 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