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18 comments on UK NAT GAS WINTER 2009, FEBRUARY UPDATE
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I notice that storage in Germany and France is continuing to drop at a faster rate than last year even after restoration of Russian gas. Poland just complained to Gazprom that it is still only receiving 75% of contracted gas via the Yamal-Europe pipeline. Do we know if this is the case with any other countries supplied by Gazprom?
A continued reduction in Russian gas supply could explain why French and German storage is continuing to drop so rapidly despite the recession led demand destruction. But perhaps it's just the cold weather.
I've no idea if it's just Poland being hit so does anyone know of any current data for any other country supplied by Russian pipelines?
Undertow,
well observed. I have been wondering myself why there still is high storage withdrawals in France and Germany.
Compared to last year the total withdrawals (as of this week) is more than 5 Bcm higher as reported by GSE and more than 4 Bcm is identified to France, Germany and UK.
If France and Germany were not receiving in full from Russia, my guess is that they would have spoken out about that by now and I have not seen anything mentioned about this in the media.
It could be colder weather and the expectations of declining prices this summer that has motivated them to increase storage withdrawals.
Well, I have lived in Germany for the last 23 years and the last time we had a winter like this was more than 10 years ago. I collect rain water from the roof into plastic barrels. I never empty them in winter, but this winter that was a mistake. They froze solid an cracked the barrels.
At the moment it is not freezing, but it is much colder every day than the last winters.
I expect my natural gas usage to have increased by a substantial amount this winter.
My natural gas usage for the period 09.11.08-09.02.09 was 24% higher than the perious year. This was despite the fact that I had increased loft insulation from 250 to 450mm and put in an additional 20 vacuum tubes on my solar water heating system.
Bizarrely I have used about 15% less electric in this quarter than the previous year.
Commission a high efficiency wood burner yesterday. I hope this cuts at least 5000 kwh from my gas consumption. However I have also replaced the electric cooker with a gas one so the saving is more likely going to be from the electric bill.
Ps - Im in Cambridge - UK