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       European gas prices soar on Russian,



       Norwegian supply cuts





        NORWAY           NATURAL gas futures at European hubs have  LNG supply. Shell informed customers on July
                         soared in recent days on the back of Russia’s clo-  11 that no cargoes from the Prelude LNG plant
       The impact of     sure of the Nord Stream pipeline and Norway’s  in Australia would be delivered until July 21, as a
       Russian cuts has   shutdown of a key gas field as a result of leaks.  result of a union strike. Meanwhile, the Freeport
       been compounded by   These outages have coincided with a continuing  LNG terminal in the US, a key source of supply
       Norwegian outages and   summer heat wave, as well as several supply dis-  for Europe, is not anticipated back up and run-
       a summer heatwave.  ruptions elsewhere in the world.   ning until October at the earliest, after being
                           The August contract at the Dutch TTF gas  closed last month due to an explosion.
                         hub hit €184 per MWh, or $1,970 per 1,000   EU gas storage facilities are currently 59%
                         cubic metres, at just after 11:30 GMT on July 13,  full, Norwegian consultancy Rystad Energy
                         up from an average of €172.6 per MWh during  estimated in a research note on July 13. If Nord
                         the previous session of trading. This was after  Stream resumed operations on time and at 100%
                         Gazprom closed the Nord Stream pipeline on  capacity, assuming the return of a repaired tur-
                         July 11, for annual maintenance. The scheduled  bine from Canada, then the EU will reach its goal
                         downtime is only meant to take 10 days, but  of filling its storage facilities to 80% of capacity by
                         European leaders have expressed fear that Rus-  November 1, in line with a target mandated by
                         sia could leave the pipeline offline for longer, to  the European Commission. But if the pipeline
                         exert pressure on Europe against the backdrop of  continues working at reduced capacity, as it was
                         the war in Ukraine.                  before its closure, then Europe will only achieve
                           A day later, Norway’s Equinor announced  72% storage capacity by the end of October.
                         it had partially closed the Sleiper gas field, after   “If Nord Stream 1 were to stop exports com-
                         discovering two leaks. Norwegian gas transport  pletely after the maintenance on July 21, EU stor-
                         operator Gassco estimates that the outage led to a  age levels would reach only around 65% before
                         drop in Norwegian production of 16.9mn cubic  winter, creating a real risk that the continent
                         metres per day, equivalent to 5% of the country’s  could run out of gas during the heating session,
                         total, based on the level in May.    adding further upside to the currently elevated
                           There have also been several disruptions in  market,” Rystad said. ™



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