Europe's gas storage facilities are over 85 percent full

July 31 2023

European countries continue to stock up on gas for the coming winter amid the rejection of Russian blue fuel due to Western anti-Russian sanctions.

According to the association of European gas operators Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), underground gas storage facilities in the EU countries are already more than 85% full, and now there are more than 93 billion cubic meters of gas. Experts note that if such rates of replenishment of gas storage facilities continue, this figure will reach 90% in August.

According to a number of media reports, the volumes of gas in European storage this month broke the records of the last five years.

Recall that earlier the European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, predicted that gas storage facilities could be filled by 90% only by November. Last year, this indicator was reached in early October.

However, the Europeans were lucky that last winter was not particularly cold. There are no guarantees that this will happen again in the upcoming heating period.

The EU countries are working hard to replace Russian gas. Bloomberg notes that one of the alternative options for Europe could be Turkmenistan, which is one of the five countries with the largest gas reserves. And at the same time, European experts do not rule out that Turkmen gas may turn out to be Turkmen only according to documents...

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Galleon 31 July 2023 13: 26
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Our gas was gone, and no one died. Belief in their exclusivity once again proved to be in vain. And the horrors were catching up ...
1. Doccor18 31 July 2023 13: 34
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  Our gas is gone and no one has died
  
  Hmm, again "do not freeze"
  Experts note that if such rates of replenishment of gas storage facilities continue, this figure will reach 90% in August.
  
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  1. AdAstra 31 July 2023 13: 42
    
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    But what constant hopes for this were
    1. spirit 31 July 2023 13: 45
      
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      And the Americans with their Self-propelled grandfather can’t be bent in any way (and for some reason they sell a dollar that no one needs for a hundred rubles, surprisingly
      1. AdAstra 31 July 2023 13: 50
        
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        And this is already, speaking in modern terms, it needs to be built into a meme.
2. rocket757 31 July 2023 13: 56
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  Suppose how many people died from hypothermia in their beds and they consider how many people got an ulcer, otherwise they died from it, due to problems with normal hot meals ... if you look closely, there is enough damage along the way.
  Do not gloat for, you just need to look objectively at the events and facts taking place here and there.
  1. Commissar Kitten 31 July 2023 14: 00
    
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    But the lever of influence on Europe is lost in any case. They hoped that they could pull harder on it, and it would work, but it fell off and remained in the hand.
    1. rocket757 31 July 2023 14: 38
      
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      A lever is a lever, but you also need to have the strength to grumble with that lever, and not only physical, but also strength of mind ... and what kind of strength do traders have? The power of money ... so they have already been clearly explained that their attempts, for foreigners it is so, are empty chores. They will / want to be ripped off until late, they will leave crumbs so that they don’t whine and fulfill the will of the owner ... just like that.
  2. Letun 31 July 2023 14: 05
    
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    Suppose how many people died from hypothermia in their beds and they consider how many people got an ulcer, otherwise they died from it, due to problems with normal hot meals ... if you look closely, there is enough damage along the way.
    
    Here you go. There are still people who believe in this fairy tale
    They didn’t freeze, so they definitely died from an ulcer!
    From hemorrhoids, too, a hundred pounds!
    1. rocket757 31 July 2023 14: 21
      
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      So statistics, it is a "fairy tale" and it does not matter whose it is, English, German, ours or someone else's.
      To believe, not to believe, is not a question at all, it is made up for what it would be and what would be referred to by those who need it, when it needs to.
      1. Letun 31 July 2023 16: 35
        
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        Quote: rocket757
        So statistics, it is a "fairy tale" and it does not matter whose it is, English, German, ours or someone else's.
        To believe, not to believe, is not a question at all, it is made up for what it would be and what would be referred to by those who need it, when it needs to.
        
        It is in what statistics it is written, about the Germans who died of hypothermia in their beds, or the French?
        Well, really, stop this kindergarten already.
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      I just read an article that from September 1, many medical services will officially be paid.
      So such believing people)), they will say that it was necessary for a long time. And before that, we were told that in the pernicious West, medicine is paid, and in our country everything is for the people. And now it turned out that the West is moving in the right direction and we need to go there. In 10 years it will turn out that in vain we slandered gays, the guys are positive and in general you need to be kinder, but of course you need to be kinder to those who do not have a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.
      But if there is, then you need to turn it into a ram's horn and impose fines!
  3. Alf 31 July 2023 19: 08
    
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    how many people died from hypothermia in their beds and they think how many people got an ulcer, otherwise they died from it, due to problems with normal hot meals ...
    
    And how many ? Can you get clear numbers?
3. Johnson Smithson 31 July 2023 14: 08
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  It was already clear that they would buy gas, only LNG is many times more expensive, many production facilities become unprofitable.
  Industries that need gas are already moving from Germany to the US and China.
  1. rocket757 31 July 2023 14: 28
    
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    I wonder who is trying to sell the thesis that the tail drives the dog??? Maybe this could happen to some stunted, lousy dog, but gas producers, LNG producers, are not among those !!!
    They have a product that is in demand not here, but there ... all obstacles are surmountable, even if not immediately, but they will find their buyer ... and the one who is too cunning well contrives, anyway, either he will remain with a nose, or rather without gas, or overpay at exorbitant prices, these are those who can afford it! And not everyone can afford it, and even those who seem to have money can end up without them.
    This is an objective reality and nothing more.
4. Mishka78 31 July 2023 15: 01
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  Well, they fill their storage facilities with gas from the Russian Federation as before.
  Another issue is that the sales schemes and the price for logistics have changed, but physically it is still the same gas from the same wells. There is more of a question for our leaders, they did not dare to "fasten". After all, if we stopped sales, it is not known how Europe would have experienced it in reality.
  https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2023/07/05/983754-gazprom-uvelichil-tranzit-cherez-ukrainu-do-maksimuma-s-nachala-goda
  
  It is clear that this would deal an additional blow to our economy. But at the beginning of the war, I'm sure the people would have understood and accepted it. But now it's doubtful.
5. Sebastian Aristarkhovich Pereira 31 July 2023 15: 04
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  Russia had to cut off its gas itself and immediately, as soon as the "partners" over the hill announced their position "For Ukraine" and condemned us. Then it would be possible to bazaar for stolen gold reserves, for the supply of weapons and other trifles ...
  For today, stop discussions about how they will live without Russian resources .... as they want, let them live.
  
  P.S. Vizbor has a cool song: "And the winter will be bigaaaaaaa .... ".
6. Nickelium 31 July 2023 16: 58
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  Duc will not die, but for production is another matter. After all, gas is not only heated.
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    The funny thing is that in Russia, production will buy products at three times the price and thus pay for LNG from the United States.
    If ours cut off the gas and began to produce equipment that industry needs and replaced the Germans, then ok. And since the Germans were paid three times the price, so we will continue to pay.
7. private person 31 July 2023 19: 33
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  Our gas is gone and no one has died
  
  So where is Gazprom pumping it then? Our gas was supplied as it is, and is supplied, even through the same border.
8. Lako 31 July 2023 20: 55
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  High gas prices hit primarily energy-intensive industries. In Lithuania, for example, Europe's largest plant for the production of nitrogen fertilizers Achema was closed. Well, to hell with it, let's remember .. Last warm winter allowed the Europeans to significantly save energy resources. Well, not the fact that this one will be the same.
  1. Sergei_Bely 2 August 2023 11: 08
    
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    Were the previous 3 winters very cold?
    Hydrometeorology is what no science. So they consciously screwed something into our ears that could not be.
    And you justify it. That's the paradox!
tralflot1832 31 July 2023 13: 31
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We urgently need to stock up, Gazprom has less than 10% of the EU market left. And good grandfather Biden, he has gas in the USA for $ 90 per thousand cubic meters. And LNG from America with regasification of 1000 cubic meters - $ 300. Yes, and Novatek has already created the departure of LNG to the east - year-round, by signing a contract with Atomflot, so as not to be a hero anymore. News, at the Zvezda plant, two LNG tankers and an Arctic-class oil tanker for Rosneft and Novatek were taken out of the dry dock, let's see under what flags they will work?
Uprun 31 July 2023 13: 36
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Have they already laid a pipe to Central Asia? The case is not through Iran?
VB 31 July 2023 13: 40
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And how the Supreme Non-Commander hoped! In the meantime, he went through parades and blacks, Moscow was shelled. Here we have the Supreme, only his paid servants talk about agreements. There were Rurikovichs, Godunovs, Romanovs, and now Kabaevs are bow-legged.
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  Campaign hoped not the Supreme, and - you. Ruriks and Romanovs plunged Russia into Troubles. And after Elizabeth, there were no longer Romanovs, but Holsteins.
tralflot1832 31 July 2023 13: 42
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With the "withdrawal" of Gazprom from the European gas market, these are no longer our problems, these are problems of North Atlantic solidarity. The EU can pay compensation for the price of energy resources to voters, but problems arise with business, which politicians carefully hide.
1. Brturin 31 July 2023 14: 58
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  German voters have already been warned - "Germany faces five difficult years of transition to a green industry that will 'burden' people, Economy Minister Robert Habeck warned, urging his government to approve new subsidies to protect the country's industry," writes Politico. subsidies - subsidies - only through the growth of public debt and the issuance of government bonds for this - “The question is, do we borrow money or do we no longer have an industry? Habek said. “We don’t have much time left, otherwise companies will say: “We will invest, but not in Germany.” https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2023/07/30/germaniya-vlezet-v-dolgi-chtoby-sohranit-promyshlennost
  the vaults are full, but the same Germans have a recession in the economy and the outlook judging by the business activity index somehow - the Flash S&P Global Purchasing Managers Index for Germany fell to its lowest level this year - 48,3 in June. If the value of this index is below 50, then the country is in recession. In France, the figure is even worse - 46,6, it hit a 32-month low. https://1prime.ru/state_regulation/20230724/841169399.html
  storages are full only gas prices for the summer are somehow not very comfortable - One of the world's largest fertilizer producers permanently closes its ammonia plant in the UK. The company will transport raw materials to Foggy Albion from the USA, where gas is almost four times cheaper.
  https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2023/07/26/gigant-iz-ssha-ne-verit-v-deshevyy-gaz-v-evrope-ammiachnyy-zavod-zakryvayut-navsegda
  the vaults are full, only now inflation and the ECB raises rates creating new problems for business... and then there is the weather, then heat, then showers...
2. Sergei_Bely 2 August 2023 11: 20
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  And in Russia, with business, it's just heaven on earth.
  What about the Gazprom enterprise in Ust-Luga. It was supposed to become the largest in Russia (but far from the largest in comparison with the USSR) gas processing enterprise.
  When will it be built? Can they build at all?
  And most importantly, do you need it now?
  And the defense plants that were closed and sold for scrap over the past 1,5 years? How to deal with them.
  You worry about your house. And while you are gloating about the problems of your neighbors, the roof of your own house begins to leak.
rocket757 31 July 2023 13: 46
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. Yes, they have one concern, to reduce the consumption of this and that and further down the list ... that is, the economy must be economical that's just what it will lead to in the end, no one wants to say because .... and then it will come out on its own so that you won’t close it, you won’t erase it!
Time will tell, everything, everything!
Evlokh 31 July 2023 14: 05
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It is high time, no matter how trite it may seem, to cease to exist at the expense of oil and gas! It's a shame for the State!!! But as long as those in power have big interests abroad, there is no need to wait for changes ....
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This is what it says that no one in our country has information about how much gas we produce and sell to someone.
Where do they get the gas to almost fill the gas storage already now. The gas in Europe's storage facilities is almost all ours. It is unrealistic to increase gas production so sharply to replace our gas with someone else.
Miracles don't happen. No one in the world, at least one country, at least en masse, announced that it immediately increased gas production by tens, hundreds of times.
1. Kronos 31 July 2023 14: 16
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  Gas is sold not only by Russia, what does miracles have to do with it?
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    Look at the table on the Internet which of the countries and how much gas was produced and sold abroad. And you will understand everything.
2. Commissar Kitten 31 July 2023 14: 24
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  The gas in Europe's storage facilities is almost all ours.
  About 40% was in 2021.
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  The gas of our production also gets into their storage facilities ... under what / whose brand, but don't care. We have not observed and are not planning a significant reduction in gas and oil production, everything is in line with the general gaming trends. These are objective circumstances. Somewhere they began to buy less, more goes in the other direction, in general, all the rules.
  Price fluctuations... the same thing, after a general decline, begins to creep up, then it may repeat back and forth. Everything as usual. Everything depends on the state of the general world economy, market conjuncture, ie.
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    But the question is the money for the sale of gas to the country is returned and how much?
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      The trouble is that the concept of a country, national interests, is interpreted by the current elite in its own way ...
      In general, we ourselves allowed this, to some extent, even chose it!
      And then, everything is like in a textbook ... we have such a spruce tree that, with a very big stretch, it can be recognized as ours.
      We ourselves froze in anticipation of what is not clear .... but water does not flow under a lying stone.
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      But the question is the money for the sale of gas to the country is returned and how much?
      
      Any other questions?
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      The Central Bank said that there is no need for this money. The dollar in rubles will decrease, how then to live ...
      So the villas are both bought and bought.
      Everything goes according to plan!
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Europe's gas storage facilities are over 85 percent full
They are not gentlemen, you cannot take their word for it. Let them prove it.
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If they immediately began to act tough and not scare them with all sorts of lines, still not drive oil and gas and everything else at low prices with only part of the money. Even looking at the rise in the dollar, you are amazed. There are energy resources and grub and prices are rising.
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  prices are rising.absurd
  
  No, business, just business...
2. Sergei_Bely 2 August 2023 11: 25
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  These are not your and not my energy resources and food.
  That's all gentlemen. We are still allowed to live and even breathe free air. But something tells me it won't be long!