"Gazprom PJSC is withdrawing natural gas from some of Europe’s storage facilities, denting critical efforts to rebuild supplies ahead of winter.
The world’s biggest producer is taking fuel to compensate for lower supplies via the Yamal-Europe pipeline through Belarus and Poland to meet demand from customers, said a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
Europe is heading for a winter gas crisis unless it can rebuild its depleted inventories quickly. But despite record prices, inventories are still at the lowest for this time of year in more than a decade, with cargoes of liquefied natural gas heading to Asia to meet soaring demand there. Outages in the North Sea are also curbing supplies.
Inventories are being withdrawn from: