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Back to EpisodesGas Prices Soar Amid Middle East Tensions
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European gas prices surge amid Middle East tensions, with Iran rejecting a peace plan and launching attacks on energy sites, including Qatars key gas hub. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed, causing a scramble for limited LNG supplies and driving up prices. Europes gas storage is at a low twenty-eight percent, with the Netherlands dipping below six percent. Analysts predict gas prices could reach eighty euros per megawatt hour by summer and Brent oil might hit eighty-five dollars and fifty cents per barrel through twenty twenty-six. However, new LNG projects in the US and Qatar should ease the crunch long-term, with global capacity set to jump nearly three hundred billion cubic meters a year by twenty thirty.
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