Gas flows eastwards through Russia-EU Yamal pipeline drop

The Yamal-Europe pipeline, which usually sends Russian gas west into Europe, was flowing east from Germany to Poland for the 16th successive day on Wednesday, although flows significantly fell, data from German network operator Gascade showed.

Eastbound volumes hit almost 1.7 million kilowatt hours an hour (kWh/h) at the Mallnow metering point on the German-Polish border, the data showed, down from more than 9 million KWh/h on Tuesday.

The high volumes of gas flowing away from German on Tuesday ignited fears over European gas supplies this winter and pushed the price of benchmark European gas contracts up around 30%.