Gas flows on the Yamal-Europe pipeline between Russia and Germany flowed eastbound for the third day running on Monday before stopping completely, data on German transmission company Gascade’s website showed. Flows into Germany at the Mallnow metering point, which lies on the Polish border, resumed on Thursday after stopping most recently on Oct. 30 but were halted again on Saturday, a bullish factor in tight European gas markets at the start of winter. The Dutch TTF December contract, a European benchmark, had risen almost 10% to 81.00 euros per megawatt-hour by 0817 GMT on Monday. Reverse flows – when Germany sends gas to Poland – through Yamal-Europe make it impossible for Gazprom to start shipping additional gas volumes to refill its European storage from Monday, as per an order given by the Russian President Vladimir Putin in late October. read more Analysts noted […]