Bloomberg News European natural gas gained as colder weather at the end of winter combined with a dip in flows from Norway. Benchmark futures rose for a second day, reaching the highest levels since Thursday. Norwegian flows slipped amid unplanned outages at the Skarv field. Below-average temperatures are forecast in northwest Europe until about the middle of April. Still, the end of the heating season is alleviating supply concerns. Despite starting the winter with record-low inventories, “Europe could have more than enough gas to completely fill its storage by October 1,” to beat the European Union’s 90% target, BloombergNEF said . The best-case scenario of a 100% storage-fill by next winter envisages no disruptions to Russian pipeline flows and European gas prices remaining higher than in Asia to attract spot liquefied natural gas. For now, with the war in Ukraine in its second month, gas to Europe has been […]