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Warm Weather Allows Small European Gas Storage Injections

NATURAL GAS

The change in European natural gas storage is showing a small net injection according to GIE data. Warm end of season weather in NW and central Europe has taken pressure off supplies as TTF front month trades near the lowest since Jul 2021 around 40€/MWh.

  • European gas in storage is at 55.75% according to GIE data from 19 Mar compared to the five year average of 34.9% after net injections in the last two days.
  • EU natural gas storage has seen a net injection of 428GWh/d on 18 March and 264GWh/d on 19 March compared to the five year average net withdrawal rate for this time of year of approximately 2,000GWh/d.
  • The countries with the largest gas in store volumes are Germany at 159.80TWh (63.96% full), Italy at 109.86TWh (58.70%), Netherlands at 81.56TWh (58.7%), Austria at 63.93TWh (66.08%) and France at 38.77TWh (29.02%).


Source: GIE / Bloomberg

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