Uniper, Germany’s largest importer of natural gas, has had to pay high prices for gas on the open market to make up for the drop in Russian deliveries.
As Russia squeezes the flow of natural gas, German officials are urgently turning toward an option they had earlier disregarded: liquefied natural gas.
The German government agreed to acquire a 30 percent stake in the company, one of the country’s largest suppliers of natural gas, and expanded a crucial credit line.