Trading data on the London Stock Exchange (ICE) showed that gas prices in Europe today, Thursday, for the first time since March last year, overcame the mark of $3,200 per thousand cubic meters.
By 10:10 Moscow time, gas futures jumped 8% to $3232.5 per thousand cubic meters.
And last Friday, the Russian energy company Gazprom announced that the flow of natural gas through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline (the pipeline for pumping gas from Russia to Germany) will be stopped for three days, from August 31 to September 2. due to planned renovations.
Source: RIA Novosti