Europe’s natural gas stockpiles are at elevated levels and on track to be full sooner than planned. This gives governments and industries confidence that last year’s energy crisis will not be repeated. The benchmark natural gas prices are one-tenth of the records seen last summer when Russia slashed pipeline supply …
Read More »Europe and China Face off Over U.S. LNG Supply Deals
Concerned about energy security, Europe and China are in an intensifying competition to sign long-term supply deals with U.S. LNG developers and exporters. The race for LNG supply indexed to Henry Hub prices and with flexibility clauses to resell the cargoes if not needed gives buyers certainty about long-term supply …
Read More »Europe Spends nearly Half Billion Euros for Azerbaijani Gas Imports
Europe’s expenditure on Azerbaijani gas imports in April 2023 have reached nearly 490 million euros, Trend learned from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In April 2023, Azerbaijan supplied 1.047 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe, resulting in export revenues of 488,241,329 euros. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan’s energy …
Read More »Europe’s Natural Gas Prices Rise on Abnormally Warm Summer
Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices continued to rise early on Tuesday as weather forecasts suggest that most of northwest Europe, the biggest consumers of gas, will see a hotter-than-usual start to the summer, at least until the middle of July. The front-month futures at the TTF hub, the benchmark for …
Read More »Hydrogen Plant on the Cards for Europe’s Largest Inland Port
The Port of Duisburg (Duisport), Europe’s top inland port, has teamed up with French renewable hydrogen producer Lhyfe to look into the feasibility of building the first major electrolysis plant in the port. The planned factory would have a capacity of up to 20 MW and could be built on …
Read More »Pakistan Invites China, Europe to Set up LNG Plants
Pakistan is eyeing Central Asia as its energy trade partner, especially Turkmenistan, and is seeking gas supplies for Gwadar in an effort to make it an international energy hub by encouraging China and European countries to establish liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants and export the fuel. “We want to be …
Read More »Gazprom to Send 40.3 mcm of Gas to Europe via Ukraine on Saturday
Russia’s Gazprom will send 40.3 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Saturday, the company said, down from 40.6 mcm on Friday.
Read More »Asian Gas Premium Puts Europe in Competiton for LNG this Summer
Spot prices for liquefied natural gas in Asia are trading at a consistent premium over the European benchmark for the rest of this year, signaling that competition for the fuel could tighten if demand rebounds. Exports from the US are currently more profitable to Asia in July, August and September, …
Read More »Europe Gas Drops again as Industries Struggle, Solar Hits Record
European natural gas prices dropped to the lowest levels in over two years as demand was hit further by record solar power in Germany. Benchmark futures tumbled as much as 4.3%. Gas posted its longest stretch of weekly declines since 2007 on Friday, a sharp turnaround from the energy crisis …
Read More »Natural Gas Prices could Fall below Zero in Parts of Europe
As tepid demand for gas from power generation and industry has sent European natural gas prices into a freefall in recent weeks, traders and industry officials are not ruling out the possibility that Europe may see a brief dip to below zero for day-ahead prices in some markets this summer. …
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