2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Quietly Voracious Continent: Europe’s Oil and Gas Imports
Author : Rafael Kandiyoti
Published in: Powering Europe: Russia, Ukraine, and the Energy Squeeze
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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This chapter reviews key aspects of natural gas transmission before tracing the evolution of gas trading between the Soviet Union and Western Europe from the late 1960s. The construction of new gas transmission infrastructure connecting Western Siberia to the rest of Europe is described, against a background of opposition by every American administration, beginning with Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. The chapter is concluded with a summary of North African gas supplies to Europe.