The UK will renew its largest Rouch gas storage and will begin to fill it in the near future. London is preparing for winter without Russian gas, writes The Daily Telegraph.
The Centrica energy company said that all permits have already been received, with the exception of a couple of documents. Clutching natural gas in Routh can begin in September. The storage has not been used since 2017. Five years ago, Centrica announced that the object is dangerous to use, since the buildings have developed its expiration date. Now the authorities can close their eyes to this, as the stake is a more important question.
Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of Great Britain, Quasi Quarten, called for the resume of the storage in order to strengthen the country’s energy security in case of termination of Russian gas supplies.
Before him, on June 22, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Fatih Birol spoke out about the problem. He warned that Europe should be prepared for a complete disconnection of Russian gas in winter. “Moscow is trying to use gas as a pressure factor in an ongoing war with Ukraine. The closer we come to winter, the better we understand the intentions of Russia. I am sure that the reduction in supplies is aimed at preventing Europe from filling in the vault and strengthen Russia’s influence in the winter months “, – he said.
In total, about 3.4 billion cubic meters of gas can be stored in the tanks of the object, that is, about 70% of the total supply of gas in the UK. Centrica plans that after returning the storage into operation, about 800 million cubic meters of gas for this winter and 1.7 billion cubic meters will be stored there for the next.