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Europe Gas Hits Three-Year High as Traders Race to Fill Storage
By Priscila Azevedo Rocha Bloomberg September 8, 2026
Sep 8, 2026 (Bloomberg) –European natural gas prices hit a fresh three-year high as traders race to fill fuel storage facilities ahead of winter, while awaiting details of an Iran-Oman deal on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Benchmark futures rose as much as 3.4% Tuesday to the highest since Jan. 2023. While Tehran said an accord is imminent and will include a temporary safe route, it remains unclear for traders how the US will respond after striking Iranian tankers over the weekend, and the risk of ship attacks remain high.
Oil also advanced after strikes on Saudi Arabia’s energy sites injected more uncertainty across markets.
Europe needs higher gas prices in order to attract more seaborne cargoes to its shores, but with less than a month left until the heating season, the region’s inventories are still lagging behind. Storage is now just 67% full, compared with a seasonal norm of 83%.
“As the European gas market heads into winter with unusually low inventories, its flexibility to absorb further supply or demand shocks is limited,” Timera Energy analysts wrote in a note. “Europe is pricing up to outcompete Asia for marginal LNG.”
In Germany, home to the continent’s biggest storage facilities, sites are only around half full. The country could technically reach its national target for filling them by Nov. 1 if customers make sufficient use of the capacity they have booked, according to gas storage group INES. But if there are extreme cold spells during winter, a fill level of about 77% would not be sufficient, it warned.
Meanwhile, an LNG tanker that loaded in Qatar early last month has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz and is signaling Pakistan as its next destination, the first visible exit of the country’s super-chilled fuel via the waterway since July. A wider resumption of LNG flows from the Persian Gulf would bring relief to price-sensitive buyers, particularly in South Asia, amid shortages and power blackouts.
Dutch front-month futures, Europe’s gas benchmark, rose 2.2% to €74.95 a megawatt-hour by 12:25 p.m. in Amsterdam.
Rising gas prices are also bolstering electricity costs, with gas-fired plants often setting power prices. That is particularly relevant for Germany, where fading solar output during the winter months will increase reliance on the country’s fossil-fuel fleet. German power futures for 2027 climbed as high as €126.62 per megawatt-hour, their highest since October 2023, according to EEX data.
https://gcaptain.com/europe-gas-hits-three-year-high-as-traders-race-to-fill-storage/
>>25018783 (me)
Now remember what Iran demands to reopen Hormuz. I'm going with any negotiations with Oman are just the regime trying to look like it has a chance
Iran sets out steep demands for reopening Hormuz despite hopes Oman deal could break impasse
By Mithil Aggarwal Aug 9, 2026
Tehran has vowed not to reopen the critical shipping lane “until America corrects its behavior,” despite a looming agreement with Oman reported to have been close for days.
The statement from Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary, as carried by Iranian state media, stated that the U.S. must withdraw its naval blockade, pay Iran damages for the war, unfreeze Iranian assets, lift sanctions on Tehran and permanently end the conflict against Iran and its regional allies.
More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-sets-steep-demands-reopening-hormuz-hopes-oman-deal-break-impasse-rcna591553
Jpost again?
Why shouldn't Congress get the money back to the people?
>The shots have been updated to target the circulating COVID variant JN.1.
Circulating where?
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All good, was gonna yard sale most of it anyway
Is that the best your script writer could come up with?
Somebody please tell how to get in touch with whomever is writing these grant proposals
I have some ideas
They happy, then the hungry, then they sleepy
Metacrawler search turned up this from Al Jazeera 55 minutes ago, the other results were facebook, instagram, and reddit
No casualties in US tanker strikes; Iran promises retaliation
By Sinem Koseoglu
Reporting from Tehran
Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu, reporting from Tehran, says no casualties have been reported so far in the US’s latest strikes on Iranian tankers.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says at least two tankers have been hit. Iran has promised to retaliate for the strikes, threatening US bases in neighbouring countries. It also warned crews of oil tankers off the shores of Kuwait and Bahrain to evacuate.
We will bring you more when we have it.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/9/8/iran-war-live-qatar-warns-of-industrial-catastrophe-if-crisis-continues
>>25019039 (me)
Here anon, don't recall seeing AL-Monitor before but at least they have an article. I'll keep an eye on the maritime sites to see if they have something later
US strikes Iranian tankers after attempted attack on Navy ship
Jared Szuba Sep 8, 2026
WASHINGTON — The US military carried out strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Gulf and around the southeastern Iranian port city of Jask, east of the Strait of Hormuz, in the latest retaliatory exchange of fire between the two sides.
"American forces have struck multiple Iranian tankers tied to the IRGC in response to more attempted missile attacks on a US Navy warship," a US official told Al-Monitor.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said following the strikes that it had destroyed five tankers: the M/Ts Derya, Horizon, Kaviz, Charminar and Riesco. The alleged Iranian ballistic missile attack on Tuesday was the second to target US Navy warships in just three days, military officials said.
The US warship that came under fire on Tuesday was not identified in a public statement by CENTCOM, which said that the ship and its crew were unharmed.
US military officials have repeatedly said they will respond if Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continues to launch projectile attacks into the vital economic waterway.
Iran's state-aligned media reported that oil tankers were targeted by the US off Kharg Island and near Jask.
Roughly an hour prior to the exchange on Monday, the spokesperson for Iran’s armed forces headquarters, known as Khatam al-Anbiya, issued a warning that US bases in the region would again be targeted with attacks should the US military again strike Iranian oil tanker ships.
Iran's IRGC issued a statement early Tuesday following the US strikes, warning crews to immediately abandon tanker vessels at ports in Kuwait and Bahrain, Iran’s Press TV reported.
The IRGC said countries hosting US forces share responsibility for the US attacks and said crews should “immediately move their vessels away from both anchorages and ports, as they will be targeted.”
Iran's state-run broadcaster, however, issued a warning from Iranian Armed Forces, calling on crews aboard tankers anchored in Kuwait and Bahrain to “immediately abandon your tankers.”
The US military began striking sanctioned Iranian oil tankers last week, expanding the scope of its targets following IRGC drone attacks on two Saudi tankers off the coast of Oman, and what officials said was a coordinated but thwarted Iranian missile and drone attack on a US aircraft carrier and a destroyer.
The latest exchange of strikes over the contested waterway came hours after the Trump administration announced a new tranche of economic sanctions on Iran's commercial airline industry.
Earlier on Monday, Iranian state media and government social media accounts claimed to have shot down a US MQ-1 Predator drone over the Strait of Hormuz after allegedly capturing an Anduril Dive-LD unmanned submarine.
A US military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to Al-Monitor that an unmanned undersea drone was lost in the vicinity of Hormuz due to a malfunction “more than a day ago.”
“It was surveying regional waters in support of ongoing operations,” the official said, adding that the “defective drone was an older model that neither collected sensitive data nor carried any classified sonar or radar equipment.”
The official did not confirm whether the US had recently lost an MQ-1 or any other model of aerial drone. The US military has reportedly lost at least three dozen MQ-series drones in the conflict, which the US and Israel initiated in February with surprise airstrikes against Iran.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/us-strikes-iranian-tankers-after-attempted-attack-navy-ship
I'll be needin hella lot more than the shit you spew