April 29, 2024 15:23 GMT
Gas Summary at European Close: TTF Lowest Since April 10
NATGAS
TTF has fallen to its lowest level since April 10, amid continued tepid demand and steady supplies to the region. This is despite Norwegian outages due to maintenance.
- TTF MAY 24 down 3.1% at 27.99€/MWh
- TTF Q3 24 down 3% at 28.63€/MWh
- Norwegian pipeline supplies to Europe are today nominated at 269.1mcm/d with field and processing plant capacity outages totalling 101.7mcm/d today according to Gassco data.
- Temperatures in NW and central Europe are forecast above normal throughout the coming two weeks although could dip slightly from the highs expected early this week.
- GIE data shows total European gas storage levels are now 61.61% full compared to the five-year average of 46.2%.
- Freeport LNG restarted one liquefaction train over the weekend according to Bloomberg sources as feedgas to the facility rose to the highest since April 9.
- The CEOs of Italian TSO Snam and utility Edson consider the short-term gas price outlook for Europe “calm”, but warn the market remains fragile, Montel said.
- Russia is expected to miss its ambitious LNG production target to commission 100m mt by 2030 by as much as 60m mt: Rystad Energy.
- Belgium is looking for EU countries to ban transhipments of Russian LNG at European ports according to Montel.
- Greece imported no LNG in April for the first time in 5-years as prices become uneconomical.
- Turkey is in talks with ExxonMobil for a multibillion-dollar LNG deal to help cut dependence on Russian energy: Reuters citing the FT.
- BP agreed a an 11-year LNG sale and purchase agreement with Korea Gas for 9.8m mt.
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