Inculen underground gas storage (PCG) may be lowered by January next year, the Latvian company AS CONEXUS BALTIC GRID (CONEXUS) is fear of storage and distribution of natural gas. This is reported by the publishing LETA.
Head of the CONEXUS corporate strategy department, Janis Eisaks, predicted that the real challenge will be the spread between the prices of this winter and those that will be in the spring of 2022. Currently, the cost of gas is 30 euros per megawatt-hour. “This means that every extra megawatt-hour, purchased and stored in Inchukalns, threatens the loss of 30 euros in the spring,” he is sure.
Because of this, merchants are careful in forming stocks, explained Eisax. Suppliers have ceased to download gas to the largest Latvian gas storage and reserves, the representative of Conexus said. According to him, only a reserve reserve (about three terravatt-hours) will remain in PCH to Janevay. Thus, the country collided with risk to stay without fuel reserves.
This is the only fleeing gas storage in the Baltic. The magnitude of the volume of gas (2.3 billion cubic meters) It is the third in the world of PCH, created in aquifer, after Casimovsky (Russia) and Shemeri (France). Latvia gets the bulk of Gaza from Russia through a gas pipeline in Pskov. Earlier in Conexus reported that PCH in Inchukalns is filled with 74 percent of the mandatory volume for the winter season.
gas futures in Europe again exceeded $ 1,000 per thousand cubic meters at bidding on September 29. At the peak, the price reached 1040 dollars per thousand cubic meters.