OREANDA-NEWS  September shipments of American liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the European Union were the highest (in monetary terms) since October 2022. The data from Eurostat is provided by TASS.

These imports cost the European Union 4.25 billion euros. The Netherlands paid the most, whose expenses reached one and a half billion euros. Italy spent 958 million euros, while France spent 820 million.

In January-October 2026, EU spending on Russian liquefied natural gas reached 8.7 billion euros, which is 21 percent more than in the whole of 2025, and the volume of supplies increased by 6.3 percent year-on-year to 12.9 million tons.

In just ten months of 2026, the European Union imported 17.43 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas.