According to the analysis of research conducted by the International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA, regarding the impact of new generation of renewable energy technologies (on the base of Renewable Energy Sources, RES) on global geopolitics, as well as on selected regions and countries, we have identified the main trends of this process in the medium and long term.

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.

On March 8, 2019 in Brussels, the European Commission Spokesperson for climate action and energy, Anna-Kaisa Itkonen, made a statement on the results of the implementation of the Joint U.S.-EU Statement on strategic cooperation with respect to energy, signed on July 25, 2018 by the President of the European Commission J.Juncker and US President D.Trump. Since the signing of the statement, the export of US liquefied natural gas to the EU has grown by 181%. From the beginning of this year, liquefied gas from the United States amounted to 12.6% of the total LNG import into the EU.

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.