GeoDebates: gas geopolitics

The presential session will be streamed also on the faculty's Youtube. How are the world's main gas sites formed and where? Why does the price of this fuel fluctuate? How is it transported from the reservoir to its final destination? How does the distribution of regasification plants and gas pipelines condition regional and global geopolitics? Will we see a decline in its production? What will be the consequences of the war between Russia and Ukraine regarding energy? The debate on the uses of fossil fuels —in a scenario of global climate change and conflicts in the world's geopolitical configuration— is a current issue, which will be addressed in the third edition of GeoDebates, driven by the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the University of Barcelona. The session, with support from the Catalan Association for Scientific Communication (ACCC), will take place on 15 November, at 6:00 pm, in the Aula Magna Carmina Virgili of the Faculty of Earth Sciences , and will be streamed on the faculty's. To attend the event, previous registration is not required. Gas, the economy and international politics Natural gas is a determining element: it represents 20% of all the primary energy used in Catalonia and 25% of it in Spain. Lately, the prices of this fuel have skyrocketed to levels Europe had never seen before, which is directly reflected in the house bills and has compromised many businesses' viability. The global gas market is conditioned by bilateral commercial agreements between countries that make important geopolitical alliances.