{"id":555487,"date":"2026-06-26T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/555487\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:17:13","slug":"decrease-in-the-value-of-gas-imports-in-q1-2026-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/555487\/","title":{"rendered":"Decrease in the value of gas imports in Q1 2026 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first quarter of 2026, the EU<\/a>\u2019s imports<\/a> of petroleum oil remained stable compared with the monthly average in 2025. More specifically the value of imports rose slightly (+0.8%) while the volume recorded a minor decrease (-0.6%).<\/p>\n

In contrast, the imports of liquefied natural gas decreased by 8.0% in value but increased by 2.9% in volume.<\/p>\n

In the same period, there was a decrease in imports of natural gas in gaseous state, with drops both in value (-12.7%) and volume (-4.0%).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Source dataset:\u00a0\u00a0Comext and Eurostat estimates<\/a><\/p>\n

The United States and Norway remain key energy suppliers in Q1 2026<\/p>\n

In the first quarter of 2026, the main suppliers of petroleum oil to the EU were the United States (17.8%), Norway (16.6%) and Kazakhstan (9.6%).<\/p>\n

The majority of liquefied natural gas was imported from the United States (57.4%). Another 17.3% came from Russia and 6.6% from Quatar.<\/p>\n

Norway was the main supplier of natural gas in its gaseous state (54.4%), followed by Algeria (18.5%) and Russia (9.8%).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Source dataset:\u00a0\u00a0Comext and Eurostat estimates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first quarter of 2026, the EU\u2019s imports of petroleum oil remained stable compared with the monthly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,5720,179,18,55504,19,4286,17,7477],"class_list":["post-555487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ext","tag-ie","tag-industry","tag-ireland","tag-trade-and-services"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116817314436720394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}