Gas supplies from Algeria to Spain have been reduced for a short time this Sunday. Why, as reported by the Algerian hydrocarbon company sonataIt is due to an error in Medgaz gas pipeline. Sources from the Ministry of Ecological Transition to this newspaper, “short term failure”but what “Never interrupted supply”.
At around 12:30 noon, a malfunction occurred in the Medgaz gas pipeline, an underwater pipeline that started in Algeria and touched the Spanish coast at the Perdigal coast in Almería. According to the Sonatrach company, the failure would have occurred in the Spanish region, and in a statement they assured that the Spanish crews were “working intensely to make the necessary repairs and restore the gas supply to Spain as soon as possible”. –
However, they confirm from the Department of Ecological Transition that this degradation is taking place in the USA. me saif plantin Algeria and only one 200,000 Nm3/h reduction of gas inlet flows Up to 704,000 Nm3/h. They also emphasize that the gas supply has never been interrupted. In the same vein, the sources naturalnessThe Spanish side, which manages the gas pipeline, described the two-hour gas “decrease in flow” as a “technical problem” and insisted that supplies were never cut off.