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Ukraine crisis jolts Europe to push for secure energy supply

FILE - Workers at a pump station on the "Druzhba" pipeline near the village Bobovichi, some 330 km (206 miles) southeast of Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 11, 2007. Surging energy prices and fear of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are making European leaders think hard about energy security — particularly their decades-old reliance on Moscow for natural gas. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File) FILE - Pipelines of the national natural gas distribution network outside Ungheni, Moldova, are seen in this March 4, 2015 file photo. Surging energy prices and fear of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are making European leaders think hard about energy security — particularly their decades-old reliance on Moscow for natural gas. The diplomatic crisis has again exposed Europe's limited options after years of slow progress in completing its "energy union" — a vision to establish infrastructure to allow gas and electricity to flow across borders, ensure diverse energy sources and cut emissions. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja, File) FILE - This Jan. 7, 2009, file photo shows a natural gas pumping station for gas imported from Russia, in Rebelszczyzna, near Warsaw, Poland. Surging energy prices and fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are making European leaders think hard about energy security -- particularly their decades-old reliance on Moscow for natural gas. The crisis shows Europe's vulnerability after years of limited progress in allowing affordable gas and electricity to flow across borders while diversifying suppliers and reaching climate goals. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File) FILE - The giant liquefied natural gas tanker Al Nuaman, carrying some 200,000 cubic meters of liquefied gas from Qatar, arrives in the Baltic port of Swinoujscie, the first delivery to the freshly-built LNG terminal, in Dec. 11, 2015. Surging energy prices and fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are making European leaders think hard about energy security -- particularly their decades-old reliance on Moscow for natural gas. The crisis shows Europe's vulnerability after years of limited progress in allowing affordable gas and electricity to flow across borders while diversifying suppliers and reaching climate goals. (AP Photo/ Lukasz Szelemej, file) FILE - This undated file photo shows a Qatari liquid natural gas (LNG) tanker ship being loaded up with LNG at Raslaffans Sea Port, northern Qatar. With gas reserves dropping and concerns a war could interrupt flows from Russia, the focus now is getting gas from the United States, Qatar, Algeria and elsewhere until renewables catch up. And environmentalists fear making that even a short-term priority could set back Europe's climate goals. (AP Photo, File) FILE - A set of pipes in a gas storage and transit point in Boyarka, just outside Kiev, Ukraine, Jan. 3, 2006. Surging energy prices and fear of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are making European leaders think hard about energy security -- particularly their decades-old reliance on Moscow for natural gas. The diplomatic crisis has again exposed Europe's limited options after years of slow progress in completing its "energy union" -- a vision to establish infrastructure to allow gas and electricity to flow across borders, ensure diverse energy sources and cut emissions. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File) FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Alexei Miller, Russian natural gas giant Gazprom CEO, attend a meeting of major investment projects at the Nizhne-Bureiskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant in Novobureyskiy, Russia, on Aug. 3, 2017. Surging energy prices and fear of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are making European leaders think hard about energy security -- particularly their decades-old reliance on Moscow for natural gas. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - A worker at a Ukrainian gas station Volovets in western Ukraine Wednesday, in Oct. 7, 2015. More than a decade ago, the alarm was raised by two brief shutoffs of the gas pipelines through Ukraine during a Ukraine-Russia pricing dispute. Since that wake-up call, there has been some progress: More two-way pipeline connections have been built and cross-border trade in electricity has grown. U.S. sellers of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, which arrives by ship, have stepped up supplies. (AP Photo/Pavlo Palamarchuk, File) Map shows imports of natural gas into Europe come from both pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG).