Samia Adel
OIES researcher; co-authored storage resilience paper treating EU storage as the energy security baseline.
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Should European gas storage be treated as a security floor rather than a market buffer?
Timeline for Samia Adel
Co-authored paper treating storage resilience as the European energy security baseline
European Energy Markets: OIES frames Iran shock as multi-year- What did OIES researchers say about European gas storage in 2026?
- OIES contributors Samia Adel and Carole Le Henaff argued in Oxford Energy Forum Issue 148 (April 2026) that gas storage resilience is the baseline security requirement for European energy policy. A November landing below 80% represents a structural security failure under this framing, not a market outcome.Source: Oxford Energy Forum Issue 148
- Why does the EU's gas storage target matter so much for 2026/27?
- OIES researchers argue that storage is the security floor for European energy, not a discretionary buffer. If the EU lands below 80% by 1 November 2026, the shortfall directly increases vulnerability to winter supply disruptions, particularly given the Hormuz closure and reduced industrial demand flexibility.Source: Oxford Energy Forum Issue 148
Background
Samia Adel is a researcher at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. She co-authored the storage resilience paper in Oxford Energy Forum Issue 148, 'Global Gas: Battling the Next Crisis', published in April 2026, alongside fellow OIES contributor Carole Le Henaff. Their paper treats gas storage resilience as the baseline security requirement for European energy policy, rather than as one option among several.
The storage-as-baseline framing has direct policy implications for the EU's 2026/27 injection season. If storage is the security floor rather than a discretionary buffer, a November landing at 72-73% rather than the 80% target represents a structural security failure, not simply a market outcome. This elevates the policy priority of injection pace in a way that consumption-smoothing tools like the AccelerateEU package do not address.
Adel's research feeds into the OIES institutional consensus that the Iran shock is a multi-year event rather than a transitional pass-through, reinforcing the case for sustained policy intervention in injection markets rather than a wait-for-market-resolution approach.
