A month of constraints, few of them at the wellhead
The past months’ energy headlines read as separate stories. Heat forced power stations offline across six European countries. Britain’s system operator stopped exports through four of its ten interconnectors. The North Sea regulator told producers to accelerate the closure of 500 overdue wells. But the more useful perspective usually sits underneath, in what the stories say together about the system that produced them, writes Arthur Hanna in his first monthly column for Energy Connects.