There are suspicions that Russia might fight back by shutting gas supply to the West. Some sources confirmed that the US is already in talks with Qatar to become Russia’s substitute.
But Qatar and other oil and gas producing nations confirmed that they will not be able to provide substantial amounts of gas to replace Russia’s supply.
African countries have been tipped as the best option because the continent has some of the world’s deepest gas reserves. But Africa might not replace Russia because of insecurity and lack of infrastructures.
Who will replace Russia?
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/3/1/analysis-can-african-gas-replace-russian-supplies-to-europeWhen viewed from various countries today, only Africa can supply gas for US needs, because indeed in this country it still has a lot of gas reserves, but the problem is infrastructure as you say, they need time to do all that, in order to have infrastructure adequate and has standards.
Besides that Russia itself will never be silent with the US treatment that starts exploring the African state, because this will hamper their industry and economic chaos, Russian power will weaken when the gas supply is no longer in the distribution of the superpower, given the largest need for gas usage in the country