The European Gas Conference on Promoting a Dialogue between the EU and its leading Gas Suppliers, organized by the Austrian Oil and Gas Company "OMV", was held in Vienna, Austria on January 28-30, 2019. The event was attended by representatives of the European Commission, experts from more than 200 world energy companies and government representatives of gas producing countries.

Over the past 50 years, global volumes of LNG production have increased 21 times - from 189 billion cubic meters of LNG per year in the period from 1967 to 1990 - up to 676 billion cubic meters of LNG annually by the end of 2018. At present, the share of LNG in the total annual gas consumption in the world (3.67 trillion cubic meters) is 18%. Jonathan Stern, head of gas programs at the Oxford Energy Research Institute, believes that by the end of 2025 global volumes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will increase by 418 billion cubic meters of gas per year (up to 1 trillion 94 billion cubic meters of gas). The growth of LNG production will mainly result from the launch of new LNG projects in the US, the potential capacity of which is estimated at 265 billion cubic meters of gas.

On April 2, 2019, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) representative, Michael Mobilia, said that during March 2019, when prices for liquefied gas in China and other Asian markets fell to a historically low level, the countries of the European Union became the main export market for American LNG.

The Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2019, an international professional conference, organized by the German government (federal ministries of economy, energy, and foreign affairs) which was held in Berlin on April 9-10, 2019, jointly with the Bundestag profile committee, announced the acceleration of the development of electricity transmission grids.

In April 2019, the report of the European Commission to the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, the European Economic and Social Committee and the European Committee of the Regions on progress in the field of renewable energy sources (RES) was presented. The report summarizes progress in the development of RES in the EU in terms of commitments undertaken by 2020, analyzes issues of RES and predicts the long-term development until 2030.

On April 3, 2019, Dr. Piotr Naimski, Plenipotentiary of the Government for Strategic Energy Infrastructure, announced the start of preparations for the second phase of construction of the “Lech Kaczyński” LNG terminal in Świnoujście. As Dr. Naimski said on March 18, the European Commission agreed to allocate EUR 128 million to Poland for the completion of the second stage of the LNG terminal, namely to increase the production capacity of the terminal from 5 to 7.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year and for the completion of additional gas storage and gas infrastructure.