IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/cnb/ocpubc/geo2022-3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Developments in the European natural gas market

In: CNB Global Economic Outlook - March 2022

Author

Listed:
  • Jan Hosek

Abstract

Global gas prices rose sharply in 2021, culminating in turbulence in December. To understand the reasons for this, we need to look not only at economic fundamentals such as demand, supply and inventories and at the global geopolitical situation, but also at the significant changes in how natural gas has been traded over the past two decades. This article shows that a wide range of factors affect the price of natural gas, and the interplay of these factors caused prices in Europe and Asia to reach historical highs at the end of 2021, which were, however, surpassed because of Russian military invasion of Ukraine. Based on market outlooks and related analyses, we cannot expect natural gas prices to decline rapidly in the coming years.

Suggested Citation

  • Jan Hosek, 2022. "Developments in the European natural gas market," Occasional Publications - Chapters in Edited Volumes, in: CNB Global Economic Outlook - March 2022, pages 14-20, Czech National Bank.
  • Handle: RePEc:cnb:ocpubc:geo2022/3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cnb.cz/export/sites/cnb/en/monetary-policy/.galleries/geo/geo_2022/gev_2022_03_en.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cnb:ocpubc:geo2022/3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jan Babecky (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cnbgvcz.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.