"In a spirit of great friendship, we will say to our American and Norwegian friends: 'You're super, you supply us with energy and gas, but one thing that can't go on for too long is us paying four times more than the price you sell to your industry,'" French President Emmanuel Macron said, "That is not exactly the meaning of friendship."
Germany's Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck criticized the "excessive" gas prices charged by "friendly" supplier countries, such as the United States.
Exxon Mobil Corp posted its biggest quarterly profit ever. The top U.S. oil producer reported second-quarter net income of $17.9 billion, an almost four-fold increase over the $4.69 billion, it earned in the same period last year.
Russia is ready to start gas supplies to Europe over the single remaining string of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday at the Russian Energy Week forum.
"Its (the surviving string) capacity is 27.5 billion cubic meters per year, about 8% of total gas imports to Europe. Russia is ready for a start of such supplies," the President said.
普京说:“现在球到了欧盟那边,如果他们愿意,他们可以直接打开管道阀门。”
“The ball, as they say, is on the side of the European Union. If they want it, let them just open the tap," Putin said.
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