How Europe re-plumbed its gas supply

For decades Europe's gas arrived by pipeline from the east. When those flows collapsed, the continent pivoted to seaborne LNG, standing up floating import terminals along the North Sea and Baltic coasts at unprecedented speed (Wilhelmshaven, Eemshaven, Lubmin, the Baltic FSRUs).

Show the LNG terminals and gas pipelines together and the swap reads off the map: import capacity blooming on the coast while the great eastern pipeline corridors that fed it for fifty years go quiet.

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