Aktuální rizika importu zemního plynu do EU a možná řešení

The thesis analyzes a potential risks of natural gas import into the EU countries. The question of sufficient diversification of natural gas sources has become important for the EU in 2009, when the EU faced a shutdown of Russian gas flowing through Ukraine. The thesis analyzes current state of LNG terminals and the gas pipeline network leading into the EU, the sources, or countries from which the EU imports natural gas. Part of the thesis is a simulation of gas outages to EU countries, for which the shutdown of natural gas is the biggest risk in terms of energy security. Past failures to increase EU diversification in natural gas imports and the root causes of these failures are being analyzed. It finds new potential sources of natural gas that will help reduce natural gas dependence of EU countries which have limited natural gas resources. There are also mentioned geopolitical events related to the previous gas pipeline projects diversifying the EU, in particular interests of the Russian Federation to maintain its position of a hegemon of natural gas supplies into the EU.