in the first seven months of the year Spain It bought 24.2% more natural gas. Compared to the same period of the previous year, Russia imports this raw material from the USA. increased by 284.7% Y Arrivals from Algeria fell by 41.9 percentAccording to data from the Petroleum Products Strategic Reserves Authority (Cores), released this Thursday.
Accumulated through July, Spain bought 29,333 gigawatt hours of Russian gas (24.2% year-on-year); 86,687 GWh (+284.7%) to the USA and 64,635 GWh (-41.9%) to Algeria.
Regarding imports from the African country, 60,056 GWh came from existing gas interconnections, representing a 39.5% decrease from the first seven months of 2021. The remainder of gas purchases from Algeria, 4,578 GWh (-61.5%), came in methane tankers.
Also important Purchase volume to NigeriaIt is a country in which 37,355 GWh was imported until July, and purchases increased by 68.8% compared to the same period of the previous year.
Total, Spain received 263,200 GWh of gas accumulated until Julythat is 15.6% more than the same period of the previous year. 73.07% of this amount comes as liquefied natural gas (LNG) via methane tankers (192,334 GWh), while the rest (70,866 GWh) is imported from existing gas pipelines.
In this sense, purchases through gas pipelines fell 38.9% LNG imports increased by 72.1% compared to the same period of the previous year.
Algeria, main supplier in July
Regarding monthly data, imports from Algeria, which was historically Spain’s main natural gas supplier by the end of 2021, surpassed the US, which replaced the African country for the first time this year. The main supplier of this raw material in 2022.
So in July Spain bought 8,572 GWh of natural gas from Algeria8,530 came from the US, ie from the African country, exceeding the purchases from North America by only 42 GWh.
After these two countries Nigeria became the third supplier In July, gas supplies to Spain with 5,882 GWh and Russia with 5,317 GWh were in fourth place.
According to Cores data, in July, Spain’s main gas suppliers were Algeria with 23.4% of purchases, followed by the USA (23.3%), Nigeria (16.1%) and Russia (14.5%). .
Spain purchased 36,606 GWh of natural gas in July, up 26.8 percent compared to the same month of 2021. Of these, 26,466 (72.29%) came from LNG, the rest from the 10,140 GWh (27.71%) pipeline. .
Thus, gas purchases through the gas pipeline They fell 38.4% compared to July 2021LNG’s increased by 113.3%.
Source: Informacion
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