Brent should have good run into Jan. BOJ Yen interv -> UST break -> weaker USD vs €\£ & EM..!
TTF/power price correction til Dec supports € s-term; CCP early import quotas; diesel shortages; 1mbpd Urals at risk; NOV OPEC cut; little unemployment yet = constructive.
The Great Rotation: With the invastion of Ukraine, VVP decided to use gas as a weapon & cut pipeline flows into Europe.
In return, Europe maxed out LNG terminal capacities & contracted every available free LNG cargo globally to compensate the collapse of Russian flows.
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Europe was able to attract LNG by being the best business globally.
How? By offering the highest prices. A cargo owner such as Trafigura or Total which bought LNG at Cheniere in US for $4.1/MMBtu + $3 gasification fee in Jan 2022 booked a pre-shipping profit of $21/MMBtu.
Why has TTF collapsed? Is Europe out of the woods? What matters for commodity price formations? What will matter in 2023...?
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European gas prices - both TTF & NBP - have collapsed right into the start of the winter season, down from its peak of €338/MWh post Nord Stream 1 sabotage news to now €63/MWh.
Mind you though, TTF was €13/MWh 2 years prior - up still 370%.
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Why is TTF lower?
Because natgas can only be consumed or stored. If storage is (95%) full & not consumed (mild weather), prices have to do the work to keep system balanced as comdties trade in present (d-s), unlike equities/bonds which discount future.
Among others, it removes 0.8-1.0mbpd of PRODUCTION, bringing KSA back to a sustainable profile while it may not reduce OPEC EXPORTS as KSA/UAE/K consume less crude themselves in winter. Yet, it should keep the shorts in check.
I subscribe to everything HRH said. Media with brand names like @Reuters either hire the right journalists or do not deserve answers. Energy security is not a boulevard topic. Media outlets must understand their responsibilities in this too (underinvestment; climate hysteria).
Isolating its wind & solar generation (RES) for the month of Sept however reveals future challenges.
GER had 9 days in Sept with little #wind. Not just Germany, all of Europe. On avg, GER used 2.7GW of its 62GW wind cap.
That is a capacity factor of 4.5%. Ouch!
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While Sept turned GER into an importer for 2d (from CZE, SWE & DK) to cover consumption (FRA couldn't help; coal maxed out), RES also required it to export excesses during 15d.
Its Energiewende already turned GER into an imp/export "junky" as d-s are tough to match.