The cost of December gas futures in Europe during the trading on the ICE exchange re-installed a record. At 15:26 Moscow time they traded $ 1456 per thousand cubic meters.
Against the backdrop of a record price of gas, Gazprom’s share updated the historical maximum.
In early October, the head of the Committee of the Bundestag of Germany on Economics and Energy Claus Ernst refused to consider Gazprom a culprit of gas prices. Earlier, the point of view was put forward by German policies, accuseding the Russian company that it inflicts prices to speed up receiving permission to launch the “Northern Flow-2”. According to Claus, “the situation is not connected with Russians, but with those who forms gas policies in Germany.”
Raw analytics predicted to Europe, if the North Stream-2 does not have time to run before the end of the year. If the gas pipeline is commissioned in the coming months, gas prices in Europe may decrease. On October 5, the Federal Network Agency FRG confirmed the possibility of a quick launch of the object.