FRANKFURT: Germany's January-September natural gas imports rose 19.0 percent from a year earlier, while the cost rose 36.4 percent, buoyed by higher underlying crude oil prices, official data showed.
The gas import bill rose to 16.1 billion euros ($18.99 billion) in the nine months on volume of 3,454,858 terajoules (TJ)*, data from trade statistics office BAFA showed.
Germany mainly imports gas from Russia, Norway, the Netherlands, Britain and Denmark.
BAFA no longer provides a breakdown of supply from each country, but Russia is the top supplier by far.
Many continental European gas prices under long-term supply contracts still track crude oil prices, with a time lag, though the importance of virtual gas trading points for spot supplies is increasing.
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