The United States is shipping gas overseas for the first time in decades, but private companies sell to the highest bidder — and not just to the countries Washington might want for geopolitical reasons.
Foreign Policy: America’s natural gas exports won’t be enough to blunt Putin’s energy weapon

Picture taken on Feb. 20, 2015 shows an oil tanker as it approaches Cape Kamenny in the Gulf of Ob shore line in the south-east of a peninsular in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, 250 km north of the town of Nadym, northern Russia.