Percentage of filled gas storage in a few European countries (updated to 29-8-2022)

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  1. This information is pretty pointless without knowing for how long a full gas storage is going to satisfy a country’s need.

  2. That is the least useful graph posted in r/europe so far. Percentage represents nothing if the overall storage capacities devided to the population of the countries are not even close. It also differs a lot depending on consumption of individual countries.

    Why haven’t you post info about for how many days the current storage is enough in case of a complete gas import shutdown?

  3. Would be interesting to know how many days of average consumption these correspond to. For all we know 100% storage in Italy could mean 3 days of consumption.

  4. Storage% mean little because every country has different storage avalible. Germany’s 83% for example can cover much less average consumption than Hungary’s 63% – we are in fact already pretty much covered for winter.

  5. For historical data, the best source is[https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports](https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports)

    We see that gasprom started not filling their storage in Europe in Early 2021, and that peak storage is in about 2 months from how (late october).

    Overall EU imports of gas stayed the same as last year, despite Russia supplying less than one third.

    Currently Russia supplies about 120 mcm per day, so a year of current Russian supply is equivalent to about 40% of storage, or 20% in half a year.

    So if Russia completely shuts off right now, at winter’s end there will be:

    80% right now

    +10% – fill up until late october

    -50% – normal winter draw dawn of stock

    -20% complete russian shut off

    = 20% by winters end, if Russia shuts down gas completely and no measures at all are taken compared to right now.

    in 2021, the minimum was at 25%.

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    edit: not source, rather data visualiser.

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