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The TTF front month rallied later in the day in another volatile session after headlines suggested the unions and Chevron are unlikely to strike a deal to avert strike action according to union officials.

  • TTF OCT 23 up 7.6% at 33.43€/MWh
  • JKM Oct 23 up 6.4% at 13.12$/mmbtu
  • Discussions between Chevron and the unions in Australia are set to continue trough Friday, after industrial action has again been postponed to 13:00AWST on Friday from 06:00AWST previously scheduled. The Offshore Alliance considers the package provided by Chevron underwhelming and it’s very unlikely they will reach an agreement, according to a union representative.
  • Norwegian pipeline supplies to Europe are back down to 123.2mcm/d, the lowest on record since at least 2015.
  • Additional outage extensions at several gas fields and facilities in Norway further reduce gas flows to Europe in the coming days, Gassco remit data showed.
  • European natural gas storage was at 93.34% full on a 4 Sep according to GIE data compared to the five year average for this time of year of 81.9%.
  • Yukio Kani, CEO of JERA, played down the possible impacts of Australian LNG strikes in an interview with Platts on the sidelines of the Gastech conference.
  • Industrial gas demand in August rose by 5.57% on the month to 1.043TWh/d. Gas demand from households and small businesses declined by 16.4% month on month to 194GWh/d.
  • German natural gas consumption last month stood 16.9% below the 2018-2021 average, compared with 20.2% below the average in July, Bnetza data showed.
  • Swiss hydropower reserves last week rose by 2.6 percentage points to 84.5% of capacity as of 4 September and moved to a surplus to the five-year average for the first time in seven weeks.
  • LNG sendout to Europe is edging higher this week up to 355mcm/d on 5 Sep but flows into NW Europe are still just below levels from last year.
  • LNG storage at major Japanese power utilities fell to 1.79m tonnes in August, down by 0.96m tonnes on the year and 0.21m tonnes below the five-year average.
  • India’s GAIL will use activity on the LNG spot market to meet spikes in power demand, Reuters said.
  • Pakistan Gasport is looking to buy its first spot LNG cargo since June 2022, its chairman Iqbal Ahmed told Reuters.
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The TTF front month rallied later in the day in another volatile session after headlines suggested the unions and Chevron are unlikely to strike a deal to avert strike action according to union officials.

  • TTF OCT 23 up 7.6% at 33.43€/MWh
  • JKM Oct 23 up 6.4% at 13.12$/mmbtu
  • Discussions between Chevron and the unions in Australia are set to continue trough Friday, after industrial action has again been postponed to 13:00AWST on Friday from 06:00AWST previously scheduled. The Offshore Alliance considers the package provided by Chevron underwhelming and it’s very unlikely they will reach an agreement, according to a union representative.
  • Norwegian pipeline supplies to Europe are back down to 123.2mcm/d, the lowest on record since at least 2015.
  • Additional outage extensions at several gas fields and facilities in Norway further reduce gas flows to Europe in the coming days, Gassco remit data showed.
  • European natural gas storage was at 93.34% full on a 4 Sep according to GIE data compared to the five year average for this time of year of 81.9%.
  • Yukio Kani, CEO of JERA, played down the possible impacts of Australian LNG strikes in an interview with Platts on the sidelines of the Gastech conference.
  • Industrial gas demand in August rose by 5.57% on the month to 1.043TWh/d. Gas demand from households and small businesses declined by 16.4% month on month to 194GWh/d.
  • German natural gas consumption last month stood 16.9% below the 2018-2021 average, compared with 20.2% below the average in July, Bnetza data showed.
  • Swiss hydropower reserves last week rose by 2.6 percentage points to 84.5% of capacity as of 4 September and moved to a surplus to the five-year average for the first time in seven weeks.
  • LNG sendout to Europe is edging higher this week up to 355mcm/d on 5 Sep but flows into NW Europe are still just below levels from last year.
  • LNG storage at major Japanese power utilities fell to 1.79m tonnes in August, down by 0.96m tonnes on the year and 0.21m tonnes below the five-year average.
  • India’s GAIL will use activity on the LNG spot market to meet spikes in power demand, Reuters said.
  • Pakistan Gasport is looking to buy its first spot LNG cargo since June 2022, its chairman Iqbal Ahmed told Reuters.