据路透社援引俄气出口总经理埃琳娜•伯米斯特罗娃周一的话报道称：“大多数挑战和威胁仍然存在。其中之一就是供应普遍过剩，我们很可能在2021年也会出现这种情况。”
欧洲市场的供过于求是在今年早些时候由于冠状病毒大流行导致经济活动疲软而导致需求下滑的结果。
2020年春，在需求疲软和储存能力有限的情况下，欧洲天然气供应商面临着减少天然气流量以防止天然气价格进一步暴跌的可能性。
由于欧洲主要经济体正在摆脱社交封锁，而欧洲大陆的天然气储存量在今年这个时候创下历史新高，对天然气的需求则较为疲软。天然气供应过剩压低了欧洲主要枢纽的价格，如荷兰TTF基准价格。即使在非洲最大的天然气出口国，俄气5月底一条重要管道的天然气流量降至零之后，油价也没有太大变动。
俄气出口定价部门负责人谢尔盖•科姆列夫上个月向路透社表示，俄气今年对欧洲的出口量为1700亿立方米，低于2019年的1990亿立方米。
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原文如下：Gazprom Expects Gas Glut In Europe Will Continue In 2021
Russian gas giant Gazprom doesn’t see the glut in Europe’s natural gas market going away soon, with oversupply extending well into 2021.
“The majority of challenges and threats are still here. One of them is general oversupply, which we are likely to see in 2021 as well,” Elena Burmistrova, Director General of Gazprom Export, said on Monday, as quoted by Reuters.
The glut in the European market was created earlier this year as demand slumped with the coronavirus pandemic that led to a decline in economic activity.
In the spring of 2020, Europe was so awash with natural gas amid weak demand and limited storage capacity that gas suppliers were facing the possibility of cutting flows to prevent natural gas prices from plunging further.
Demand for natural gas was very weak as major economies in Europe were emerging from lockdowns while gas in storage across the continent was at a record high for this time of the year. The natural gas glut depressed the prices at key European hubs such as the Dutch TTF benchmark. Prices didn’t move much even after the biggest gas exporter to the continent, Gazprom, saw its flows on a key pipeline fall to zero at the end of May.
Gazprom sees its exports to Europe at 170 billion cubic meters (bcm) this year, down from 199 bcm in 2019, Sergey Komlev, who heads Gazprom Export’s pricing division, told Reuters last month.
