European officials are scrambling to lock down energy supplies they would need to keep their economies churning if hostilities around Ukraine (https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-russia-wants-and-what-the-u-s-is-proposing-in-the-ukraine-crisis-11643241055?mod=article_inline) imperil natural gas piped from Russia, and have turned to the U.S. for help finding backup sources beyond Moscow’s control.

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