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To: SpeedyInTexas; JonPreston
At 100% capacity, those figures would work out to 2100/0.56 = 3750 billion cubic feet (BCF).

Per the US Energy Information Administration, in 2019, Germany used 8.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas...per day. That's just one country of Europe.

Per Statista, total EU natural gas consumption in 2020 (which was a low year due to COVID lockdowns) was 379.9 billion cubic meters. When converting to billion cubic feet, this becomes 13,416 BCF in gas consumption in 2020.

So at 100% storage capacity (at least going by your numbers), the EU has slightly over one season's worth of natural gas consumption available in storage...and that's only if their consumption is at 2020 COVID lockdown levels.

Hope they're building more capacity...although from recent reports, it seems firing back up their old coal plants is the path they've chosen.

8 posted on 06/22/2022 2:25:29 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007; All
Last winter, EU used about 2000 BCF from storage over the course of the entire winter.

Storage went from 3000 BCF to 1000 BCF.

It can easily be seen from the graph.

Storage back up to 2100 BCF. So already rebuilt more than 1/2 of what was consumed last winter.


9 posted on 06/22/2022 3:02:07 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Bummer for Europe that Canada will not permit the Russians to resume exports of their natural gas.


12 posted on 06/22/2022 3:47:42 PM PDT by BobL (My hatred of Necons/Globalists exceeds my love of Ukraine or any other country, other than the US)
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