Netherlands Gas Trade Beats Peers as LNG Arrives: Energy Markets
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The Netherlands’ natural-gas market is growing faster than its peers, fending off competition from Germany to be mainland Europe’s largest as the country starts importing liquefied fuel for the first time.
Volumes at the Title Transfer Facility, the Dutch hub, jumped 42 percent from a year earlier in the first half of 2011, compared with a 21 percent increase in Germany and 9 percent in the U.K., Europe’s biggest market, data from Kingston Energy Consulting Ltd. show. The Netherlands handled more than 13 times as much month-ahead gas as Germany on Sept. 13, according to London Energy Brokers’ Association data.