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EU Gas Storage Withdrawals Reduce Back Below Normal

NATURAL GAS

European gas storage withdrawals are back below the seasonal normal levels in the last couple of days driven by muted demand due to warmer weather and after averaging well above normal throughout most of January so far.

  • Net storage withdrawals have averaged just over 10% above normal in the week to Jan 21 with withdrawals of 7,250GWh/d compared to the previous five year average of about 6,550GWh/d. Withdrawals averaged 17% above normal so far in Jan compared to 30 below normal during Q4 2023.
  • European natural gas storage is down to 74.44% full on Jan 21 according to GIE data but still well above normal compared to the seasonal five year average of 63.3%.
  • Withdrawals for the remainder of the month could remain below normal with the forecast for warm weather across NW and central Europe into the start of February.
  • Storage in Germany is down to 198.2TWh (77.8% full), Italy to 139.2TWh (70.7%), Netherlands to 99.4TWh (69.7%), France to 87.4TWh (65.1%) and Austria to 82.3TWh (84.3%).
  • TTF FEB 24 up 2.1% at 27.84€/MWh


Source: Bloomberg

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