Investment banks predict that the price of natural gas in Europe this winter is expected to fall sharply

Jimu Journalist Li Lili Huang Jiaqi

According to the "Guardian" reported on September 13th local time, the US multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs Group company predicted that the price of natural gas in Europe may fall sharply this winter.

Goldman Sachs analyzed that the supply problem in European countries may have been "successfully resolved" and can withstand natural gas reduction from Russia. The price of natural gas in this winter may fall by more than half.

European countries have filled their gas storage facilities before winter (the source of the "Guardian")

According to Goldman Sachs, under the typical winter weather conditions, by the end of the first quarter of next year, it is expected that the natural gas wholesale price in Europe will drop from 215 euros this summer (about 1490 yuan)/MWh to 100 in the first quarter of 2023 Euro (about RMB 693)/Suma time.

After Russia's Natural Gas Industry Co., Ltd. reduced its natural gas supply to European countries, European countries rushed to fill the natural gas storage facilities before winter. The crazy purchase of natural gas supply has pushed the wholesale price of natural gas.

This month, Russia's Natural Gas Industry Co., Ltd. extended the closure time of the Beixi Pipeline and did not provide a timetable for re -opening.

Goldman Sachs analyst said: "The export of Beixi 1 natural gas exports indefinitely will be reduced to zero, which will make Europe not get any Russian natural gas in the future. Although we often hear such problems: What will this impact on storage? We think The better way is to ask what it will have on the price, so that the storage space can continue to increase on demand. "

Goldman Sachs expects that by the end of October, the average usage rate of natural gas storage facilities will reach 90%, and the original goal of the European Union is to reach 80%by November 1.

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