Which energy suppliers use Russian gas?

Robin9

As a Russian owned gas supplier - Gazprom

Astria

tommyedinburgh said:

My simplest response is if I had an opportunity to move to a company who do not trade with them I would.

Clearly I don't as the gas is mixed up from multiple locations. That does not stop me contacting my supplier and expressing my discontent that they use Russian gas. If even as low of 10% of gas customers done the same, the suppliers here in the UK might be motivated to focus their gas purchases elsewhere.

I am sure everyone is getting the idea here. I don't want to spend money that ends up in Russia.

I don't think you understand - the company you are dealing with is primarily a billing company only, they simply buy wholesale gas and sell it on, they don't actually get to see the gas that they are selling. Your gas supply doesn't come from anywhere different when you change providers.

Verdigris

I don't think you understand - the company you are dealing with is primarily a billing company only, they simply buy wholesale gas and sell it on, they don't actually get to see the gas that they are selling. Your gas supply doesn't come from anywhere different when you change providers.

Gazprom directly supply commercial users in the UK. I suspect the couple of percent in the total gas supply is probably that gas. You could boycott the Gazprom customers, of course. One of them is a well known burger chain.

tommyedinburgh

MWT said:

tommyedinburgh said:

Clearly I don't as the gas is mixed up from multiple locations. That does not stop me contacting my supplier and expressing my discontent that they use Russian gas. If even as low of 10% of gas customers done the same, the suppliers here in the UK might be motivated to focus their gas purchases elsewhere.

You are still assuming that they are directly purchasing Russian gas, they are not.

Your supplier has zero ability to avoid using a percentage of gas that originated in Russia.

I stand corrected.

tommyedinburgh

Astria said:

tommyedinburgh said:

My simplest response is if I had an opportunity to move to a company who do not trade with them I would.

Clearly I don't as the gas is mixed up from multiple locations. That does not stop me contacting my supplier and expressing my discontent that they use Russian gas. If even as low of 10% of gas customers done the same, the suppliers here in the UK might be motivated to focus their gas purchases elsewhere.

I am sure everyone is getting the idea here. I don't want to spend money that ends up in Russia.

I don't think you understand - the company you are dealing with is primarily a billing company only, they simply buy wholesale gas and sell it on, they don't actually get to see the gas that they are selling. Your gas supply doesn't come from anywhere different when you change providers.

I stand corrected. I am fully informed now.

tommyedinburgh

Just a quick note to everyone who has replied - thank you.

I am informed now of the wider picture.

markin

What company actually buys all the LNG? Is it the owner of the port?

MWT

markin said:

What company actually buys all the LNG? Is it the owner of the port?

No, most LNG is supplied under long term contracts, there can be exceptions though, but in general ownership of the LNG transferred when the ship was fully loaded.

Thrugelmir

If your car exhaust fails. Don't replace it. As the likelihood that the palladium used will be sourced from Russia.

Uxb1

Fun fact
During the cold war the USA's mega speed high altitude spy plane was the SR71.
Used to overfly Russia and other "unfriendly" places
The SR71 was made mainly of Titanium metal - being very expensive and hard to obtain and the USA did not have a supply of the raw ore necessary to extract the pure metal.

Guess where they got it from - yes Russia!
On the quiet obviously and via lots of different diverse routes.