{
  "id": 215597,
  "title": "Europe's Gas Storage Hits Lowest Level Since 2011 as Winter Looms",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/europes-gas-storage-hits-lowest-level-since-2011-as-winter-looms",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-06T10:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "OilPrice",
    "slug": "oilprice",
    "url": "https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Europes-Gas-Storage-Hits-Lowest-Level-Since-2011-as-Winter-Looms.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Europe faces spiking natural gas prices this winter amid the lowest gas storage levels in more than a decade and tightening LNG markets amid the Middle East crisis. EU storage sites were only 57% full as of August 5, data from Gas Infrastructure Europe shows. That’s the lowest level for this time of year since 2011 and well below the nearly 70% full storage at this time last year. The low levels…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}