Gazprom chief executive Alexey Miller said European gas prices had already exceeded 1,200 dollars per thousand cubic metres in October, much earlier than Western experts had forecast for the autumn and winter peak, and warned prices could set a record of 2,500 dollars per thousand cubic metres if the winter is severely cold, TASS reported on October 30. He pointed to record low injection rates into European storage, with Germany’s facilities 61.6 percent full. The claim is carried in full in today’s TTF story; it is a supplier with a direct interest in the price, and it is flagged as such.
The International Energy Agency published Clean Cooking in Africa 2026, its executive summary entering the feed pool this weekend as a primary orphan item. Clean cooking access is an LPG and biomass demand story as much as a development one: every household that moves from wood and charcoal to LPG adds a small, permanent bid to the same propane and butane markets that rose sharply this week in the United States.
Two Friday items remain live watch items rather than new stories. The Los Angeles and Long Beach negotiation deadline is 5 p.m. Pacific Time on November 4, with about 250 ILWU Local 26 watchmen in dispute at terminals handling roughly 85 percent of Long Beach cargo and 33 percent of Los Angeles cargo. Russia’s diesel export ban extension to January, with November exempted exports planned at about 2.15 million tonnes, was published on October 31 and is not duplicated.
Statistics Canada’s August energy statistics, showing primary energy production up 4.7 percent year over year, entered the pool as a primary orphan item, but the release page could not be verified in full in this run, so its figures beyond the headline are not carried.