04/11/2026 – US midterm elections: Democrats win House and Senate, oil and gas markets react weakly – Read more news

GAS & POWER: The strong volatility observed at the beginning of the week continued yesterday, with gas prices fluctuating in a range of 10 €/MWh, supported earlier in the day by reports of new military bombing in the Strait of Hormuz, only to be put under pressure later by some signs of diplomatic rapprochement between the United States and Iran. At the start of the day, the results of the US midterm elections, which saw Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress, had minimal effect.

Stade's new floating LNG terminal received its first commissioning load on November 2: the LECH LNG carrier KACZYNSKI docked next to the FSRU Energos Force, initiating delivery operations for approximately 160,000 cubic meters of liquefied gas. The first network releases are scheduled for November 6, while commissioning is expected to be completed by mid-January. Stade thus becomes Germany's fifth floating LNG import terminal, after Brunsbüttel, Mukran and the two Wilhelmshaven plants