The price of gas at the TTF Dutch Hab record took off, for the first time in history, reaching a thousand dollars for a thousand cubic meters, testify the data of the London Exchange ICE.
At the time of publication, the cost of October futures was 83.42 euros per megawatt-hour, or $ 102.58 per thousand cubic meters. Growth compared with the level of closure of the previous trading session amounted to nine percent.
At the peak price reached 1031 dollars per thousand cubic meters. Analysts associate the rise in gas prices in Europe, which has been continuing from the end of August, with attractive demand, low level of completion of underground storage facilities, as well as with interruptions in supplies, including due to the accident at the Gazprom factory in the new Urengoy.