Hub services

Certainty that the volumes traded will be available

Huberator, a subsidiary of Fluxys Europe, is operator of the Zeebrugge Hub, one of the leading short-term natural gas markets in Europe. Thanks to the services provided by Huberator traders can be sure that the volumes they buy or sell on the Zeebrugge Hub will effectively be available for re-trading or physical redelivery to another location.

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Currently 78 traders at Zeebrugge Hub

Interest in trading natural gas at the Zeebrugge Hub continues to rise, bringing the number of Huberator customers to 78.

Hub activity remains high

In 2010, net traded volumes were up 0.4% on 2009, which was already an outstanding year. The volumes that were physically delivered rose by 0.6%, an increase that was mainly triggered by power stations being directly supplied from Zeebrugge Hub.

In the last few years, high records have been regularly achieved. The last record is dated 29 January 2010 with net traded volumes reaching 2,673 GWh, around 4.7 times the amount of high-calorific gas consumed in Belgium on the same day. Over the year 2010 as a whole, a total of 62.3 billion cubic metres of natural gas was traded on the Hub (724 TWh), which is 3.4 times the annual consumption rate for the Belgian market.

Tips for using search operators

Use "quotation marks" to search for a series of words or a phrase in a specific order.

Boolean operators

You can find a group of words or a phrase by using the link words AND, OR and NOT:
known as Boolean operators, these words are used to combine terms in the search field.

  • AND: All the search terms must be included in the publication. Typing in Apple AND Pear will return publications containing both the word Apple and the word Pear.

     

  • OR :  At least one of the search terms must be included in the publication. Typing in Apple OR Pear will return publications containing either the word Apple or the word Pear or both.

     

  • NOT: The term preceded by NOT must not be included in the publication. Typing in Apple NOT Pear will return publications containing the word Apple but not the word Pear.