OREANDA-NEWS. Valve maintenance is expected to cut withdrawal capacity at the Rough storage facility by 15.75mn m? on today's gas day.

The capacity cut began at 11:00 GMT, UK utility Centrica said, although withdrawals at the site halted at the start of today's gas day, from a peak of 20mn m?/d overnight. Total Rough withdrawals yesterday were 4.7mn m?/d.

The duration of the outage is under investigation, Centrica said late morning.