Andreas Schroeder, head of energy analytics at ICIS, a commodity intelligence service, told CNBC via telephone that Russia's leverage over Europe's energy "is not yet ending, but it is fading — slowly but surely."
However, "we are still in a record high price environment, so clearly, the reduced flows do influence European markets to the extent that we have super high prices," Schroeder said.
"This is still not over even with Germany being slightly ahead of its storage target and the whole European Union also filling its storage [levels]. And having reduced the reliance on Russian flows, it has brought very high prices."
"Winter has yet to come," Schroeder said. "If the winter is mild, we need less consumption cuts but if the winter is severe, we need more. It all hinges on [the] weather now."