At least five cargoes of liquefied natural gas have diverted from Asia to Europe in the past few days, drawn by higher gas prices on the continent after Russia's Gazprom halted supplies to Austria's OMV,

By Newsbase Russia’s Gazprom cut off its natural gas supply to Austria’s biggest oil and gas company OMV on November 16, the latter’s trading arm reported on the previous day, triggering a spike in European gas prices.

Russia halted gas supplies to Austria on Saturday in a dispute over payments but was still pumping steady volumes to Europe via Ukraine after remaining buyers asked for more gas. Russia, which before the Ukraine war was the biggest single supplier of natural gas to Europe,