May 27, 2024 08:08 GMT
TTF Holding Much of Recent Gains
NATGAS
Front month TTF is holding up much of last week’s gains on Gazprom supply concerns, Norwegian maintenance, higher competition for LNG supply with Asia and storage refill demand.
- TTF JUN 24 up 1.2% at 34.53€/MWh
- EU gas storage is at around 68.5% full according to GIE data compared to the 5-year seasonal average of 55.3%.
- Hungary and Austria are the fullest vs 5-yr seasonal average.
- Austria’s OMV said last week that Gazprom could halt deliveries due to payment issues – a key supportive factor in the recent TTF price rise as markets struggled to price the unexpected news.
- Warmer-than-normal weather is expected across Europe in the next two weeks, according to Weather Services International.
- Planned maintenance at some of Norway’s gas assets at the end of this month has also pushed up European gas prices.
- Norway’s Equinor plans to boost gas output from Troll field, Europe’s largest, it said in a statement Friday – a boost for European energy longer term.
161 words