After a declining start, the gas price on the Amsterdam market reverses direction. Methane futures, the reference for Europe, for delivery in January rise by around 5% to 85 euros per megawatt hour.
Natural gas reserves in the European Union increased slightly, reaching 931 TWh, equal to 83.2% of filling capacity, against 83% recorded the day before.
In first place is Germany, with reserves of 218.13 TWh, up by 0.41% on Christmas Eve data and a filling index of 88.62%. Italy decreased slightly (-0.01% to 160.84 TWh), which has deposits full at 83.15%, while inventories rose in Austria (+0.29% to 82.61 TWh), with a filling index of 86.13%, Belgium (+0.96% to 6.39 TWh), with storage at 84.04%, and France (+0.1% to 112.2 TWh), which has 83.98% full deposits.