Levels in Germany’s natural gas storage facilities are at an all-time low

Berlin The natural gas storage facilities in Germany are getting emptier. They are currently only 33 percent full – a historic low. Particularly in focus: the storage facility in Rehden, Lower Saxony, which is only 3.6 percent full. It belongs to Astora, a Gazprom subsidiary.

Rehden is not just any storage facility, it is the largest gas storage facility in Western Europe. For weeks, Gazprom has been suspected of keeping the storage level artificially low and thus fueling the gas supply crisis. But some facts speak against this theory.

According to Sebastian Bleschke, Managing Director of the “Initiative Store Energies” (INES), in which the operators of the gas storage facilities have joined forces, the filling levels of the gas storage facilities in Germany were at a low level at the beginning of winter – and not just the filling levels of the three natural gas storage facilities wholly or partially operated by the Gazprom Group.