France, which is said in a more “favorable” situation than its neighbors, is counting on gas stocks as much as possible and on a new methanier terminal next year to cope with other potential decreases of supplies.
Le Monde with AFP
French gas storage will be completely filled on 1 er November, predicted on August 3 the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, on CNews. According to the European platform agrégated Gas Storage Inventory (AGSI) France is on the right track to achieve this goal: its gas stocks for the winter were 90.06 % of their capacities on Thursday, August 25.
In detail, the stocks of Down’s syndrome, one of the two managers of the gas transport network in France, were 91.21 % of their capacities, when those of Storengy, a subsidiary of Engie were 89 , 67 %, according to the AGSI website. The operators usually have an obligation to fill these reserves only 85 % at 1 er
Russian Gazprom has since the start of the war in Ukraine has stopped gas deliveries to several European countries and has lowered its deliveries very strongly in June via the North Stream 1.
France, which is said in a more “favorable” situation than its neighbors, is counting on stocks of gas filled up to the maximum and on a new methanier terminal next year to cope with other potential decreases of supplies. Wednesday, August 24 on France 5, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, said: “It is on the question of Russian gas that part of the growth will be played in Europe in the coming months”, as well as the risk of recession. “Everything will depend on the decisions of Vladimir Putin on the gas,” he said. “If he ever decides to cut the gas for the EU and the euro zone, we assess the impact on growth, for France alone, half a point of GDP, and probably more for other more savings dependent on the Russian gas that we. “