据路透社7月12日法兰克福报道，研究公司Prospex周五表示，由于荷兰、德国和意大利天然气交易中心的增长，今年欧洲天然气交易量可能超过2018年创纪录的52604太瓦时。

Prospex在一份年度天然气交易报告中表示，与2018年同期相比，2019年上半年该公司监测的11个市场的天然气交易量增长了5%，交易量至少增长了10%。

与2018年1-6月的26000太瓦时相比，它没有给出2019年上半年的具体产量数据。

Prospex表示，荷兰天然气交易所有权转让基金(TTF)的交易量增长仍占主导地位，足以抵消英国国家平衡点(NBP)的持续下滑。

这两家公司占欧洲天然气批发交易的80%。

该报告的作者奈杰尔哈里斯表示:“总的来说，如果到2019年底，欧洲天然气的年度总交易量没有创下新的纪录，那将是非常令人惊讶的。”

近年来，随着该地区天然气资源的减少和更多液化天然气的到来，批发贸易有所回升。

报告称，随着去年全球天然气价格上涨约20%，2018年欧洲天然气交易总额达到11.9万亿欧元(合1.34万亿美元)，同比增长35%，首次超过1万亿欧元。

李方征 编译自 路透社

原文如下：

Europe gas trade volume on track for another record in 2019

European gas trading volumes this year may beat the record 52,604 terawatt hours (TWh) recorded in 2018 due to growth at the Dutch, German and Italian gas trading hubs, research firm Prospex said on Friday.

Last year’s volume rose 5% and trading across 11 markets monitored by Prospex increased by at least 10% in the first half of 2019 compared with the same 2018 period, the consultancy said in an annual gas trading report.

It did not give a specific volume figure for the first half of 2019 to compare with the 2018 Jan-June period’s 26,000 TWh.

Prospex said that volume growth on Dutch gas exchange Title Transfer Facility (TTF) remains dominant, more than offsetting a continued decline on Britain’s National Balancing Point (NBP).

The two account for 80% of European wholesale gas trading.

“Overall, it would be very surprising if at the end of 2019 we don’t have a new total annual trading volume record for European natural gas,” the report’s author, Nigel Harris, said.

Wholesale trading has picked up in recent years as the region’s gas resources fall and more liquefied natural gas (LNG)arrives.

As global gas prices increased by around 20% last year, the total European gas trading value in 2018 amounted to 1,190 billion euros ($1.34 trillion), up 35% and exceeding one trillion euros for the first time ever, it said.