RE: Hedge27 Jun 2022 15:13
"They have committed to deliver a set volume of gas and a good guess at what the future price of gas is"
Yes and no -they had to raise cash last year - the only way they could do it was to hedge some of their future production. Mercuria guaranteed a price as set out in the CPR and various RNS's - ANGS guaranteed a volume every month starting in July 2022. Absolutely fine, nothing wrong with that.
Then of course Russia attacked Ukraine and the gas price went up - doubled, tripled, ....... Mercuria are now sitting on a possible gold mine as they will buy the gas for $0p approx and sell at between Β£ 1.60 and whatever. ANGS still get their 40p.
However if ANGS don't produce enough gas they have to pay Mercuria for the CONTRACTED volumes
This could be a very very large number
That's the problem with hedging - you have to be able to deliver .