Norway’s government said that based on the announced strike numbers, it had been feared that more than half of the country’s daily gas exports would have been lost by the weekend.
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European gas prices on Wednesday fell away from four-month highs after Norway’s government intervened to bring an end to an oil and gas strike that threatened to exacerbate the region’s deepening energy crisis.
The front-month gas price at the Dutch TTF hub, a European benchmark for natural gas trading, was last seen trading 2.5% lower at 161 euros ($164.6) per megawatt-hour. The contract briefly climbed above 178 euros per megawatt-hour amid intensifying supply fears in the…
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