France has no gas in its basements (or at least does not exploit it) but it has four gas terminals in its ports.
Enough to massively import natural gas in liquefied form (LNG), from distant countries such as the United States or Qatar.
A boon for the country, but also and above all for its neighbors who are trying to cure their addiction to Russian gas by turning to safer suppliers.
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Since the start of the year, France has imported a record volume of 136 terawatt hours of LNG.
This represents almost a third of its annual consumption, landed in just four months.
But it re-exported over the same period the equivalent of 40% of this volume, or 54 terawatt hours, to Benelux and Switzerland, themselves gas transit countries to Germany.
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