Natural Gas: a new gas pipeline will be built in 9 months to alleviate the energy crisis
Another natural gas pipeline could soon become operational in Europe to connect Spain and France; the new link could go live in about nine months, according to the Spanish energy minister.
"This new interconnection, this gas pipeline, could be operational in about 8 or 9 months on the side of the southern border, that is from the Pyrenees to Spain," Spanish Energy Minister Teresa Ribera told national TVE station in an interview on Friday. , as reported by Reuters.
Europe is working to rid itself of Russian gas due to mounting tensions with Moscow and the uncertainty of pipeline supplies from Russia, which were curtailed this summer. In addition to importing record volumes of LNG from the United States, European countries are seeking to build more infrastructure to accommodate more gas imports from sources other than Russia.
Spain itself is not dependent on Russian gas, but has six LNG import terminals and is located on the route of the gas pipelines from North Africa to Europe. Unfortunately Spain is not well connected with other European countries through pipelines, which limits European access to imports of LNG.
Earlier this week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz discussed the idea of a gas pipeline to connect Portugal, Spain and Central Europe via France and said he was in favor of the new link.
"I pointed out that we should really tackle such a project," said Scholz, quoted by the Financial Times, referring to talks with the leaders of France, Spain and Portugal, as well as with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, companies are also studying plans for possible offshore pipeline connections from Spain to Italy.
In May, the Italian energy infrastructure operator Snam signed a memorandum of understanding with the Spanish energy and transmission systems operator Enagas for a feasibility study on an offshore pipeline between Spain and Italy. Snam and Enagas will jointly launch a technical feasibility study aimed at the potential construction of an offshore gas pipeline connecting Spain to Italy, "which would be useful for further diversifying the energy supply to our country and Europe", declared the Italian company. However, in the end it would be just another way to bring the liquefied gas that arrives in Spain in central Europe, also because it would be more logical to regasify in Italy …
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