Editor’s Note:

With Kyiv temperatures forecast to repeatedly hit 32C (90F) over the next week, it is hard to worry in July about heating bills in November. But Gazprom’s artificial gas squeeze this summer will cost everyone dearly in the winter. Hopefully, the inevitable price shock will force action for alternatives: more LNG to the Baltic and to the Adriatic. One option I like starts in a region where I worked as a bright-eyed 29-year-old — Nigeria’s gas-rich river delta. Officially called the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline, this non-Russian pipeline would start in the Gulf of Guinea, then travel 4,100 km due north, crossing Algeria’s Sahara. Once on the southern shore of the Mediterranean, the line would bifurcate into Spain and Sicily. Call it Sud Stream 1 and 2. With Best Regards, Jim Brooke