Energy pathways
Cards (8)
- Russia - Ukraine: 2025 end of transfer of gas to Europe
- Danish strait: after stormy weather in 2013 paralysed important pipeline in 2013, UK gas reserves fell to 6 hours worth
- Straight of Mallaca: criminal gangs frequently board ships and capture them for payment. Over 500 attacks from 2009 - 2015
- Somali piracy - 33 armed robberies in the first 3 months of 2024
- Straight of Hormuz: Iran intercepts UK tankers
- Gibraltar - choke point - UK seized an Iranian tanker in 2019
- Trans Forcados pipeline - bombed in 2016 by militants.
- Russia: can still send gas to Turkey via Turkstream pipeline