"There is no guarantee that Europe will survive
the winter
with
current
gas stocks ."
This was stated by
Alexei Miller
, chairman of the Board of Directors of
Gazprom
, the Russian state energy giant.
A forecast that seems to respond indirectly to what was stated only yesterday by the executive director of the International Energy Agency
Fatih Birol
, according to which "European countries will face the winter without major interruptions in supplies and without blackouts, because gas storage they have reached about 90% ".
Regarding Italy,
.
Data on gas storage in European plants should be evaluated in the context of altered logistics, Miller said: "
Today we have different logistics
, different sources of gas supply for the European market. UGS (
underground gas storage, ed
) will probably be much higher than in previous years ".
Germany has the largest gas injection volume, Miller said: “Germany will apparently inject about 20 billion cubic meters.
During the previous autumn and winter periods, Germany consumed 60 billion or more, which means there is enough gas in the Ugs plants for 2-2.5 months at the most.
There are
different forecasts, depending on the temperature
, there are some optimistic and others pessimistic according
to which reserves in storage will be around 5% in March 2023
.
Whole cities can be cold in no time.
Gazprom was supplying between 600 million and 1.7 billion cubic meters per day during winter peaks when the cold anticyclone 'Beast from the East' arrives.
Experts today estimate
a shortage of 800 million cubic meters of gas in Europe if there were a particularly cold winter
and this is a third of all European consumption "
"What will happen in 2023-2024?", Miller finally asks, "it is clear that the energy crisis will not last short but is of a systemic nature".
Concerns about future storage have also been raised in recent days by Eni's CEO
Claudio Descalzi
.