Tag: Gas storage
Why the gas price is currently falling
Gas production in Lower Saxony The gas price is falling but remains volatile. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The gas price has been rising almost continuously for almost a year. In the…
Why the gas price is currently falling
Gas production in Lower Saxony The gas price is falling but remains volatile. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The gas price has been rising almost continuously for almost a year. In the…
Why the gas price is currently falling
Gas production in Lower Saxony The gas price is falling but remains volatile. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The gas price has been rising almost continuously for almost a year. In the…
Why the gas price is falling now
Gas production in Lower Saxony The gas price is falling but remains volatile. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The gas price has been rising almost continuously for almost a year. In the…
How China unintentionally helps Europe fill up its gas storage facilities
LNG Terminal China China’s LNG imports fell 27 percent from March to July. (Photo: Bloomberg) Berlin China is currently unwittingly helping Europe buy more liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the…
Four reasons why the high gas storage levels are deceptive
gas storage The goal of reaching 85 percent on October 1 seems to be within reach. (Photo: IMAGO/CHROMORANGE) Berlin Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) and Klaus Müller, President…
Despite high fill levels, winter becomes a problem
gas storage The goal of reaching 85 percent on October 1 seems to be within reach. (Photo: IMAGO/CHROMORANGE) Berlin Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) and Klaus Müller, President…
Robert Habeck – from “poster boy” to “blunder boy”
Let’s start the week with the man who topped the politicians’ list of popularity ratings for a long time, but who is suddenly seen not as a poster boy, but…
Gas storage tanks are filling up faster than expected
Gas storage facility in Jemgum, Lower Saxony Russia has reduced gas supplies to Germany, and now the economy is worried about energy supplies. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The filling level of…
Germany in the gas trap: reconstruction of a state failure
Putin, Merkel, Nord Stream Germany thought it had privatized the gas market – but in fact it had transferred security of supply to Russia. (Photo: Imago, Reuters [M]) Brussels In…
Germany in the gas trap: reconstruction of a state failure
Putin, Merkel, Nord Stream Germany thought it had privatized the gas market – but in fact it had transferred security of supply to Russia. (Photo: Imago, Reuters [M]) Brussels In…
What Russia is doing with the unexported gas
Measuring device at a receiving station for natural gas Several factors allow Russia and Gazprom to reduce gas supplies. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf While fears of a gas shortage are growing…
What Russia is doing with the unexported gas
Dusseldorf While fears of a gas shortage are growing among European companies, politicians and citizens, Russia has more gas than the population usually uses. According to the Federal Association for…
Habeck wants to shut down gas power plants quickly
Minister of Economics Habeck Natural gas is to be used less for electricity production. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to reduce the use of…
Federal government prepares for gas emergency
Robert Habeck “We can’t go into the winter at 56 percent.” (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck does not rule out legal measures to save energy as…
German gas storage facilities are already half full again
gas storage A manometer shows the pressure in the natural gas network at the site of an underground gas storage facility. The suppliers fill the deposits under high pressure. (Photo:…
The escape of the Gazprombank manager
on Tuesday evening, the deputy head of Gazprombank spoke up in a sensational video on YouTube. In it, Igor Volobuyev explains his flight back to his home country, Ukraine: “I…
An expropriation of Gazprom and Rosneft cannot be ruled out
Berlin Plans to nationalize the German subsidiaries of Russian energy companies meet with approval in the coalition. “The situation is serious and requires extraordinary measures,” said Bernd Westphal, economic policy…
EU Commission wants to regulate gas storage more strictly
Berlin, Brussels The EU Commission wants to standardize the management of natural gas storage facilities within Europe in order to increase security of supply and reduce price fluctuations. It wants…
EU Commission wants to regulate gas storage more strictly
The EU Commission wants to standardize the management of natural gas storage facilities within Europe in order to increase security of supply and reduce price fluctuations. It wants to oblige…