Portugal maintains its natural gas reserves above 80%
Portugal has its reserves fed thanks to maritime transport.
Contrary to what happens in some Eastern European countries, which are dependent on Russian gas, Portugal is not committed in terms of natural gas. According to the RENconcessionaire of Portuguese infrastructures focused on the substance, such as Portuguese reserves are 80% and above the European average. “An infrastructure for the maintenance of the environment is not 80% necessary for the recovery of its recoverability necessary for the maintenance of its necessary recoverability. winter period“, told the newspaper Public company source.
ONE REN Storage is the company to which the offer for the Carriço natural gas proposal was delivered, which was designed to be projected in Carriço.
“Following a reduction of levels, in levels a row of steps, with all first months of recovery implemented in the last 21 months to December with “a past level of 81.1%“, which is higher “than the average level presented in the same European context (53.8%), revealed the company to the same newspaper.
Portugal has connections to Spain via pipelinewhich allows contact with Algerian deposits, but more than 90% of the natural gas received arrived via boatthrough the port of deep waters of sines (to ensure annual consumption close to 70 TWh).
In this context, REN Atlântico is offered for the reception, storage and regasification activity at the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Sines and since the beginning of the year has already received ships: four energy from Nigeria, two from the United States and one from Trindad and Tobago – “on average, each vessel unloaded around 950 GWh of energy at the Sines terminal”.