Gas

Austria’s energy firm OMV has seized $241 million (230 million euros) of Gazprom natural gas deliveries for October as a means to recover the arbitration award, which prompted Gazprom to cut off supply, sources close to OMV and Gazprom have told Reuters. Earlier this month, OMV said that it had …

As Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices have hit a one-year high, their premium over with the U.S. benchmark gas price has widened well above 2024 averages, signaling that U.S. LNG exporters will likely further boost deliveries to Europe to take advantage of the widening spread. Currently, the price of the …

Iraq’s electricity ministry said on Sunday that Iranian gas supplies had been completely halted for 15 days due to maintenance, impacting Baghdad, the central provinces, and the Middle Euphrates, resulting in the loss of 5.5 gigawatts from its national grid. It was no immediately clear when the 15 – day …

Russian natural gas flows to Europe via Ukraine have remained stable this week despite the fact that Gazprom cut off supply to Austria’s OMV over the weekend. Gazprom is sending 42.4 million cubic meters of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Thursday, Reuters quoted the Russian gas giant as saying. …

As Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices have hit a one-year high, their premium over with the U.S. benchmark gas price has widened well above 2024 averages, signaling that U.S. LNG exporters will likely further boost deliveries to Europe to take advantage of the widening spread. Currently, the price of the …

Iranian gas refineries are currently producing 840 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas per day, according to the director of production coordination and supervision of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). Speaking to the press on the sidelines of a visit to Ilam Refinery, Mohammad-Reza Jolaei, said natural gas accounts …

Requests from customers in Austria and Slovakia for Russian natural gas supply via Ukraine rose by 6% on Tuesday compared to Monday, even as Gazprom cut off supply to Austrian energy group OMV this weekend amid a contractual dispute. Nominations from companies in Austria and Slovakia were still 12% below …

Austria appears to be still receiving some Russian gas two days after the country’s integrated energy company, OMV, declared it would stop paying Gazprom to offset a 230 million-euro ($242 million) arbitration award by the International Chamber of Commerce over a previous gas cut-off. According to Reuters, gas flows from …

Global natural gas demand rose by 6.1 billion cubic meters (bcm) in September from a year earlier, and inventories jumped to a record high, the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) said in its monthly oil and gas overview on Monday. Worldwide natural gas production also rose year-over-year by 7.65 bcm …

France is importing record volumes of Russian LNG even as overall LNG purchases are falling, ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg showed on Monday, highlighting Europe’s growing imports of Russian LNG. So far this year, France has already imported more LNG from Russia’s Yamal export plant than in any other full …