| dc.description.abstract | In today's modernization era, industrialization development runs more and more rapidly and
demands for high needs of energy for all production activities. The countries in Western
Europe, which are mostly advanced industrial countries, have significant energy needs
especially natural gas energy. Western Europe does not have energy resources of natural gas
in order to ensure the continuity of the industry, the energy needs are fulfilled from abroad
(imports). Natural gas in Western Europe is gained from the largest natural gas exporter in
the world, that is Russia. In carrying out the distribution of natural gas to Western Europe, at
first Russia exported through Ukrainian transit country distributed using natural gas pipeline.
However, he problems of Russia and Ukraine because term of price lead to the energy crisis
in the main consumer countries in Western Europe. Russia immediately took immediate
actions on this issue by building new lines of natural gas pipeline directly connected to
Western Europe through Nord Stream project, no longer through Ukraine. Nord Stream
began in 2010 and officially operated in 2012. The Nord Stream project becomes the Russian
leading project which has full of economic and political interests of Russia to Western
Europe. | en_US |
