Europe’s Fragile Gas Market Shows Risk of Crisis Redux

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The gas market is flashing warning signs that Europe could easily plunge back into crisis.

Huge price swings caused by a series of small outages at gas facilities in Norway and the planned shutdown of a key production site in the Netherlands have provided a glimpse of how fragile the market is to any threat of disruption to the region’s supply.