據Azernews新聞網站4月7日消息 美國能源信息署（EIA）稱，截至2020年3月1日，歐洲天然氣儲存庫存已滿60%，創下3月初有史以來的最高水平（歐洲天然氣儲存總量（AGSI+））。

EIA稱：“歐洲2020年1月和2月的庫存水平都創下了這幾個月來的最高紀錄。歐洲天然氣儲存量高是由于冬季溫和，限制了冬季取暖需求以及管道和液化天然氣進口量不斷增加的結果。”

據介紹，歐洲各地冬季天氣相對溫和，尤其是北歐地區，天然氣供暖較為普遍，居民和商業供暖需求減少。

“因此，天然氣從庫存中的提取量低于平均水平，導致1月和2月庫存水平創下歷史新高。基于前5年的數據，歐洲3月1日的天然氣儲存能力利用率通常為38%。2020年，歐洲天然氣庫存從3月份開始占產能的60%。

報告顯示，天然氣庫存居高不下，部分原因是2019年通過管道和液化天然氣向歐洲輸送量均創歷史新高。

2012年至2018年年中，歐洲的液化天然氣進口量相對較低，但2019年大幅增加，平均110億立方英尺/天，幾乎是前兩年的兩倍。液化天然氣進口量在2019年12月和2020年2月創下140億立方英尺/天的月度記錄（不包括再出口，即一個國家先進口然后出口液化天然氣），這意味著整個歐洲的再氣化能力利用率接近60%。

俄羅斯和美國去年對歐洲的液化天然氣出口分別比2018年增加了約140億立方英尺/天和150億立方英尺/天。自2019年11月以來，美國一直是歐洲最大的液化天然氣供應國。2020年2月，從美國進口的液化天然氣創下歷史新高，達到51億立方英尺/天，幾乎是歐洲第二大供應國卡塔爾的兩倍。”

吳恒磊 編譯自 Azernews

原文如下：

Europe’s natural gas storage inventories record high

European natural gas storage inventories as of March 1, 2020, were 60 percent full—the highest ever recorded level for the start of March, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said referring to the Gas Storage Europe’s Aggregated Gas Storage Inventory (AGSI+).

“European stock levels for both January and February 2020 were the highest ever recorded for those months. Europe’s high levels of natural gas in storage are the result of a mild winter, which limited winter heating demand, and growing natural gas imports by pipeline and as liquefied natural gas (LNG),” said EIA.

Relatively mild winter weather across Europe—and especially in northern Europe, where natural gas heating is more common—reduced demand for residential and commercial heating, according to the report.

“As a result, natural gas withdrawals from storage were lower than average, resulting in record-high January and February inventory levels. Europe’s natural gas storage capacity utilization for the first day of March has typically been 38 percent, based on the previous five years; in 2020, natural gas stocks in Europe started March at 60 percent of capacity,” said EIA.

The report shows that high natural gas stocks were partly the result of record-high deliveries to Europe both by pipeline and as LNG in 2019.

“LNG imports into Europe had been relatively low between 2012 and mid-2018, but they increased substantially in 2019, averaging 11 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) or almost twice the volume in the two previous years. LNG imports set monthly records of 14 Bcf/d in December 2019 and February 2020 (excluding re-exports, where a country imports and then exports LNG), implying a Europe-wide regasification capacity utilization of almost 60 percent,” said EIA.

“Russia and the United States increased LNG exports to Europe last year by an estimated 1.4 Bcf/d and 1.5 Bcf/d, respectively, compared with 2018. The United States has been the largest LNG supplier to Europe since November 2019, and in February 2020, LNG imports from the United States reached a new record high at 5.1 Bcf/d—nearly double the volume of Europe’s second-largest supplier, Qatar.”