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@GlobalDiss LNG ships from the USA to the UK have dropped off. If this continues then no exports to the EU.

🚨🇪🇺 EU IN TROUBLE: Ursula von der Leyen IGNORES REALITY She REFUSES to shift Russian gas sanctions, even if it sparks an ENERGY CRISIS The EU has no gas, no oil, not enough electricity, but plenty of incompetent leaders pushing reckless policies

@SStarmeroid @philippilk If the IMF say no but say we should drill oil and gas, what then?

@philippilk IMF can only offer a share of $960 bn The UK national debt is multiples that. IMF can’t help UK?

Britain is going to be the hardest hit country by this crisis. It may provoke an IMF bailout. 🇬🇧📉

@travelingflying Mazda mx5.

I’m looking to buy a new car, something safe and high tech. Any recommendations?

@FabioCara4 @RussiaIsntEnemy I thought it was Germany (BNetzA) who didn't grant regulatory approval to NS AG...

@RussiaIsntEnemy Economic decisions by EU leaders are made against their own people. This is not stupidity, but deliberate decision.

☝️ "We built Nord Stream and supplied gas to Europe. What was wrong with that? Now, there is no Russian gas flowing there. When I ask our experts what Europe is lacking right now, the answer is clear: they’re lacking brains. Not because they are stupid, no, but because economic decisions are now being made by politicians who have no connection to the economy whatsoever." - President Putin

@KathrynPorter26 They'll get BICs?

Today the government has put out a new steel strategy which aims to increase domestic production from 30% to 50% of the steel we use Tariffs are also being introduced on some imported steel made in countries that offer subsidies to the steel sector. This is good... It's not possible to compete with subsidised steel nor should we try But in other ways the strategy is a missed opportunity as it focuses on "green steel" ie produced in electric arc furnaces Electric arc furnaces (EAFs) are well suited to recycling scrap steel and offer lower emissions, but they inherently limit the range and scale of steelmaking because they depend on the availability and quality of scrap and cannot easily produce all primary steel grades High-quality flat products, specialist steels, and certain applications in automotive, defence and infrastructure often require tightly controlled chemistry and low residual elements, which are difficult to achieve using scrap alone This means EAF-based systems typically need supplementary inputs such as direct reduced iron (DRI), which introduces new supply chain dependencies. By contrast, blast furnaces provide a route to virgin iron from iron ore, enabling consistent production of primary steel at scale and supporting a full range of grades Retaining some blast furnace capability, or an equivalent primary ironmaking route, is therefore critical for maintaining sovereign capability, ensuring security of supply, and avoiding over-reliance on imported inputs in a volatile global market @griffitha @ClaireCoutinho gov.uk/government/pub…

Meet Robert Homans of Birmingham. He served in Afghanistan from the age of 19. After returning to the UK, he struggled with PTSD and lost his home. He applied for social housing, but was denied because he wasn't a migrant. He killed himself soon after, in August 2025.🇬🇧

@LeeAndersonMP_ That's a very poorly poured pint of G.

Our Future. Last night I had a drink on my own overlooking the Thames and thought to myself what would our country look like in 100 years - what do you think?

Have the HV EV cables at @GRIDSERVE_HQ Woolley Edge North (M1) been stolen?

Whoever stole my old man’s bike in the early hours at 4am from there garage in Waverley Road i strongly suggest you give it back you utter fucking pond life Share away ladies and gents #Gloucester

@10kchecks @KathrynPorter26 @jonburkeUK There is a formula but output scales with wind speed and is constrained by the Betz limit, air density and turbine design.

@KathrynPorter26 @jonburkeUK Genuine question @KathrynPorter26 . What's the calculation for MW against windspeed?

Britain’s electricity is currently 72% zero carbon. We’re defeating the oil barons, petro-state dictators, paid fossil fuel lobbyists, and every right wing grifter on the internet one wind turbine at a time. Cool Britannia is so back…🇬🇧⚡️♻️🔋😎

@WhoAreYouRoy @CaseyjohnAFC @F1_driven Why do they stop showing the graphic when cars reach 200mph/325kph on the straights...

@CaseyjohnAFC @F1_driven Way better racing than the DRS era. Now we see actually fights for positions, even with a push button. Drivers have another strategy they can use

Max fans trying to cancel the sport & get the regs changed cause their driver keeps getting outperformed by an Alpine yet we were called a cult for being mad at a RIGGED CHAMPIONSHIP???

@utopia_escape @METhompson72 Recently we had 3 LNG ships in 12 hours. I predict LNG ships will be queuing up this summer to deposit at IOG, South Hook and Dragon from the USA only to be exported to the EU. We could see 45% exports. Last year I posted days of 40%.

@redbites @METhompson72 They would do that... by cozying up to Russia. On a long enough time line, that probaly happens regardless. America will be too broke after this to continue their proxy war with much gusto. Europe could do a lot more for its own energy. They have frakable shale, for instance.

Riddle me this all the mental pygmy, room-temperature IQ gas experts out there who disagree with me: What if UK Govt signed 50 year fixed price deals with North Sea operators for gas at a price level where there was a 20% return on capital for the O&G Companies? They would bite the arm off to invest in the UK. We would become self sufficient in gas within 5 years. Gas that could only be consumed in the UK, at that fixed wholesale price. That fixed price would be at approximately the US price of gas right now - 20% of the current European price: a fraction of what we are paying for LNG from Qatar and gas from Norway. (Do you idiots have any idea how much it costs to compress, liquify, transport, re-gasify and then distribute gas? It is not like oil that you just put on a ship - this is all really expensive, and hence why the "arbitrage" of 500% price difference between US and europe does not close.) UK Gas prices would then be 100% indepndent of any concept of an international price (that does not exist anyway), we would have security of supply, and everyone's energy bill would go down. Massively. The greatest mis-allocation of capital in human history could be ended by a tiny bit of common sense.

@Jack_H2o @LindaNe10012033 @fourcheeze @AllisonPearson @KeillerDon @AndyatAuto @faisalislam 3 pipelines right here. Gas is traded at the NBP.

@fourcheeze @AllisonPearson @KeillerDon @AndyatAuto @faisalislam Gas is sold regionally and is dictated by market access.Gas produced here can only be exported via pipeline as we have no cryogenic facilities here. It would have to be sold in our domestic market and would bring down prices dramatically.There is no global market

Why did Faisal Islam not ask Miliband why we pay Norway up to £40 BILLION a year for oil and gas they drill from the North Sea? Norway’s oil fields are next to the UK’s. We are still using fossil fuels. Just not our own. Madness. @faisalislam

@utopia_escape @METhompson72 We need to stop exporting to the EU. Let them solve NS2.

@METhompson72 I don't disagree with you, but I would note that UK's pipelines connect to Europe. Those could be reversed, so that TTF linkage would weigh on price until the UK was self-sufficient + export limits. Still, the UK could easily become self sufficient in a decade with political will

@METhompson72 @JubCapital Q-Max and Q-Flex vessels generate boil-off gas naturally. Most were designed to re-liquefy it, although some can burn BOG depending on operating mode.

Are you suggesting that using parasitic gas to generate electricity to run the compressors to liquify gas in Qatar, and then sticking that gas on heavy fuel-oil burning ships for thousands of miles rather than just sticking it into the end of a pipeline in the North Sea is not Net Zero compliant? Surely that cannot be true!!

@METhompson72 @jemmm85517813 We have the world's best offshore and onshore infrastructure. Period. We also have 2 fields (JR) ready to go at some point. Send the right signals and rigs will come. Plenty of spare entry capacity as well. Then use Rough how we used it in the 90s and curtail EU exports.

@JeremyNic666 @BarryGardiner @GBNEWS Very rarely do we import. I've posted many times over the years the energy/volume exported. Most likely exports would be co mingled from Seal, Perenco or Shell at Bacton. Oddly Fluxys showing IUK export now but not showing up on NTS IF (must be batch flowing later)

@redbites @BarryGardiner @GBNEWS Sure - UK is also a transit hub for Norwegian gas entering the continental gas system. The IUK/BBL interconnectors can and do import to UK too.

Dear @BarryGardiner - you have just said on @GBNEWS that UK gas production is sold on international markets not in UK, which this is untrue. If you didn't mean to be intentionally misleading, I'm sure you'd be happy to put the record straight. ALL UK gas is landed/sold here.

@tejparikh90 @FT My recommendation would be to constrain exports and inject into storage. Use commercial tools to inject into rough this summer when gas demand is low. As previously posted we are getting LNG from the USA at SHG, Dragon and IOG so let the EU fend for itself.

THREAD (1/8): Why I now think Britain should revive North Sea gas activities. My analysis in the @FT: as.ft.com/r/e35da9b3-858…

@LoftusSteve @tejparikh90 @FT We have export gas pipelines. Whatever goes in at IBT tends to go straight out.

A question not being asked though is what happens to North Sea gas under CP 2030? We currently use 100% of UK North Sea gas. What happens to all those producers and all those platforms under CP2030 with only 5% gas utilisation in the electricity market? The UK has no liquefaction export facilities. We have no pipelines to Europe for exporting North Sea gas. So, what happens to it?