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NATGAS: Norway Seasonal Maintenance to Ramp Up Towards End August

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NORWAY GAS - The risk of an early cut in Ukraine transit gas combined with Norway Sep maintenance could drive a tighter market just as Europe looks to add the remaining volumes to storage to enter the winter heating season in the best possible position. Storage was up to 87.26% full on Aug 10 according to GIE.

  • TTF earlier today rose to the highest since the start of December at €42.9/MWh before easing back slightly.
  • Gassco shows capacity reductions of 28.2mcm/d today due to unavailable capacity at Karsto, Troll and Kollnes. Norwegian pipeline supplies to Europe are today nominated in line with levels seen at the weekend at 329.5mcm/d today, according to Bloomberg.
  • The Karsto processing facility has reduce capacity by 9.6mcm/d until Aug 15.
  • Troll has reduced capacity of 17mcm/d from Aug 10-14.
  • The Kollsnes processing facility will reduce capacity by 16mcm/d from Aug 10 to Sept 2.
  • Further outages including Kristin, Asgard, Skarv and Sleipner, Visund, Gulfaks, Johan Sverdrup, Heidrun and Njord are currently expected during the last week of August.
  • Seasonal maintenance is currently expected to ramp up to around 166mcm/d of unavailable capacity from Sep 2 to Sep 15.
  • TTF SEP 24 up 1.2% at 40.88€/MWh

 

 

Source: Gassco

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