Sep. 2 at 7:44 AM
$VG European natural gas prices rose further to around €74/MWh on Wednesday, the highest level since January 2023, as rising hostilities between the US and Iran heightened fears of a prolonged disruption to LNG supplies from the Persian Gulf. Iran struck back at US military bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain following the latest US attacks on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, which President Trump said were in response to Iranian mine-laying attempts in the waterway and an earlier attack on a US base in Jordan.