European natural gas traders are taking fuel out of the region’s record inventories as colder weather settles in, drawing from its buffer against winter supply shocks bloomberg.com/news/articles/… vi Anna Shiryaevskaya Elena Mazneva

An LNG shipment diverted to Brazil as hot weather boosts power demand 🇧🇷🌡️ 🚢 The LNG Alliance vessel was initially heading to the UK. Brazil's Petrobras bought the LNG 👉 The diversion comes as EU gas storage is high and Asian buyers sell surplus supply bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Egypt is set to resume exports of liquefied natural gas following months of hiatus after supplies of the fuel from Israel increased trib.al/stCzYQo

HOW ENERGY TRADERS LEFT A COUNTRY IN THE COLD Pakistan, one of the world’s poorest nations, thought it had secured natural gas to fuel its economy Commodities firms had other ideas Full story with Faseeh Mangi 👇 bloomberg.com/features/2023-…

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With about $21 billion in assets under management, Balyasny will add power traders in Denmark and may bulk out to its growing gas, power and carbon desk in London, according to people familiar with the plans bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets Anna Shiryaevskaya

#Oil tanker owners stopped sending their ships through the southern Red Sea on Friday after US and UK airstrikes in Yemen. 2 #LNG carriers also appear to be avoiding the route. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

In its annual LNG outlook report, Shell says that global natural gas demand will peak "after 2040" (that's significantly later than the International Energy Agency's view of before the end of this decade). Gas demand has already peaked in Europe and Japan, but is growing elsewhere | #EnergyTransition

Traders are selling European gas for next winter in a sign of optimism that the region will continue to receive Russian shipments via Ukraine bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/Anna Shiryaevskaya Priscila Azevedo Rocha

Exclusive: A long-term liquefied natural gas contract between TotalEnergies and a Russian supplier has become an uncomfortable obstacle to the Dutch government’s pledge to end imports of the fuel from Russia. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… with Anna Shiryaevskaya

The world’s biggest LNG supply expansion through the end of next decade just got bigger with Qatar’s announcement today to expand another 16mtpa - easily eclipsing a US project on the fringe - as the US stalls on permitting new LNG projects: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Qatar is unwavering in its view that the world isn’t investing enough in natural gas Now the nation is trying to fix that “We’ve been consistently saying that we need a lot of LNG,” Energy Minister Al-Kaabi said. “There is more volume that’s needed” bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Egypt starts buying LNG in rare move to avoid a summer gas shortage 🇪🇬🚢 ⚠️ This marks a shift for Egypt, which largely stopped LNG imports in 2018 when the country turned into an exporter 👉 Falling domestic gas output & hot weather risk supply crunch bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Here’s what the Thames Water crisis could mean for customer bills bloom.bg/4d5wKBQ

An intense heatwave in Philippines is leaving power system “overloaded,” says President Ferdinand Marcos Jr 🇵🇭 🌡️ ☀️ Temperatures in Manila hit a record last few days 💰 The nation will implement strategies to prevent power price jumps “at least for now” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Egypt plans to make its biggest purchase of LNG in years to avoid an energy shortage 🇪🇬 ⚠️ 🚢 State-run EGAS released a tender seeking to purchase at least 17 shipments for summer 🔁 Egypt, which had been exporting LNG since 2019, is returning as a buyer bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The swings in European gas prices will likely get more extreme amid Ukraine's incursion into Russia and the coming expiration of a pipeline transit deal, writes Anna Shiryaevskaya bloomberg.com/news/newslette… via Bloomberg Markets

#Russia and #Ukraine have no intention of halting #gas flows via Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region even as fighting continues near a key cross-border transit point for the fuel. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A second "dark-fleet" LNG tanker left an export terminal in northern Russia that’s subject to US sanctions, ship-tracking data show. By Anna Shiryaevskaya bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Egypt is seeking to buy 20 cargoes of liquefied natural gas starting in October, marking the first time in years it will import the fuel in the run up to winter trib.al/8cZIjSk