The European natural gas market needs diversity and Russian supplies are an important component of the mix, German energy company Wintershall said. Wintershall is a member of the consortium working to double the capacity of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline running through the Baltic Sea to Germany. The project is led by Russian energy company Gazprom, sending Russian gas to the European market while avoiding geopolitically sensitive territory in Ukraine. The German company said the European market gets about 33 percent of its natural gas from Russia. Germany, for its part, gets 40 percent of its gas from Russia. “With European oil and gas production decreasing, energy imports from Russia are an essential part of the European […]