BRUSSELS—European officers are scrambling to lock down energy presents they would enjoy to wait on their economies churning if hostilities round Ukraine imperil natural gas piped from Russia, and enjoy became to the U.S. for abet discovering backup sources past Moscow’s take care of a watch on.
In present weeks, as Russia has positioned extra than 100,000 troops near Ukraine, European Union energy officers enjoy huddled with U.S. counterparts and are jetting to gas producers together with Azerbaijan and Qatar to hunt for fallback sources.