September 17, 2024 15:32 GMT
NATGAS: Gas Summary at European Close: TTF on the Rise
NATGAS
TTF front-month is rising today after yesterday’s selloff with markets focusing on winter risks despite bearish near-term fundamentals.
- TTF OCT 24 up 3.5% at 35.29€/MWh
- Norwegian pipeline supplies to Europe are today nominated up to 203.9mcm/d, according to Bloomberg.
- European natural gas storage has been slowly rising to 93.40% full on Sep 15, according to GIE, but with injection rates limited due to curtailed pipeline supplies to Europe from Norway and Algeria.
- The quantity of LNG on tankers that have not unloaded for at least 20 days has fallen from a high of 4.64m tons on Sept. 14 but is still 0.8% higher on the week at 4.1m tons as of Sept. 15, according to Bloomberg estimates.
- Global LNG demand rose 3% in the week to Sept. 15 to 8.05m metric tons with an increase in imports to NW Europe and Italy to the highest since late May, according to BNEF.
- Malaysia’s 30-day moving average of LNG exports rose to its highest since late-July on Sep. 15, according to Bloomberg.
- D.Trading, the commercial arm of Ukraine power producer DTEK, hopes to agree to receive its first LNG cargo from Venture Global expected to arrive in December, according to Montel.
- Venture Global LNG has signed a five-year deal with Gastrade SA to regasify up to 1m metric tons of LNG at Greece’s Alexandroupolis LNG import terminal for five years beginning in 2025.
- Bangladesh's Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) has issued a tender for two LNG cargoes for delivery in early October according to Reuters sources.
- Azerbaijan’s gas exports declared at customs across Jan-Aug. fell 9% on the year to 15.827 bcm, Interfax said.
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