Austria still in Russia’s energy orbit

Austria is overflowing with Russian natural gas, allowing the longtime customer of Gazprom to boost sales to its neighbours while delaying efforts to move away from Kremlin-controlled energy

GAS STORAGE CAPACITIES IN EU
EU members with storage capacity
No storage capacity but solidarity arrangements with other members

Capacity
TWh* 
1
10 
100
200

Germany: 254.9 
Netherlands 142.5

Austria: 97.6
Storage level 97% full heading into Dec 2023

RUSSIA
UKRAINE
France: 134.4
Italy 197.0

*Terawatt hours


RUSSIAN GAS FLOWS
More than half of Russian gas transiting Ukraine lands in Austria Gigawatt hours/day

Russian gas flows to Europe
Austrian imports of Russian gas

400
200
0

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Sources: Bloomberg, Consilium