Portugal is now known as the ‘Island of Energy’. here’s why
Spain Portugal is not located to pipelines supplied for Russian oil and gas Northern Europe. They built their own resources and now it’s paying off.
It’s important to realize that Portugal and Spain recognized years before Putin cut oil and gas that the future was building and using solar energy, solar energy. The vision of both governments is now giving them the freedom that Northern Europe can only dream of. Much of northern Europe has never seemed happy to rely on cheap oil and gas from Russia, hoping this will become a problem. There have been warnings over the many years that this dependence would lead to ‘trouble’, but governments have not listened. There was Portugal and Spain.
Portugal has the answer
The New York Times recently published an article entitled ‘Portugal can respond to a Europe captive to Russian gas’. Continue ‘Portugal and Spain were the first European countries to build processing terminals to load natural gas in the form of steam.
It’s not the option available, but it has served us well now that Northern Europe is struggling to find ways to avoid dependence on Russia, but now that the Nord pipeline has been completely cut off. For some time now, Portugal has been planning the construction of a gas pipeline from the south to countries like France and Germany. It was derided as impractical. Who’s laughing now? Germany apparently thinks it’s a good idea and, according to press reports, France still disagrees.
Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline
Russia is not the only country with gas. The Hassi R’Mel gas field is the largest gas field in Algeria and one of the largest gas fields in the world. The annual production capacity is about 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas. It is estimated that the field of gas12 attachments 3.5 to cubic gas.
Both Spain and Portugal receive gas through the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline. The pipeline became operational on November 1, 1996 and was commissioned on November 9, 1996. The Spanish wing opened on December 9, 1996 in Córdoba. The branch opened on February 27, 1997 On August 21, 21, following September 2, diplomatic relations between the 25-year agenda and Morocco did not change MGE’s 25-year operating contract, which expired on the move from Portugal October 31, 2021, choosing to assign it to Spain. Medgas canoe.
It was a complicated pipeline. The 515-mile long Algerian pipeline runs from the Hassi R’Mel field in Algeria to the Moroccan border. It is owned and operated by the Algerian state oil company, Sonatraque. The 522-mile stretch of Moroccan territory is owned and operated by the State of Morocco megagasa joint effort comrade (Spanish subsidiary Natural gas), Transcas (Portugal) and SNPP (Morocco). Sea area station to be crossed Strait of Gibraltar is 45 miles; It is jointly owned enagas, State of Transcas and Morocco. The length of the Andalusian section is 269 kilometers and the Portuguese section is similar.
The important thing is that it has nothing to do with Russia and is not subject to the whims of President Putin.
port of Sines
The Sines terminal is the closest in Europe to the United States and the Panama Canal; In 2016, it became the first port in Europe to receive LNG from the US. They identified strategically important China as a gateway for American energy to the rest of Europe.
It has a liquid bulk terminal opened in 1978, which is the largest liquid bulk terminal in the country. with six jettiesis able to receive vessels Até 350000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 com 35000000000000000000000 com 3500000000 com 350000000000 com 35000000 com 35000000 com 35000000000 com gases liquefeitos e com agregados totais e agregados de diferentes produtos(produtos liquefeitos, gases liquefeitos,outros líquidos).
Petrochemical Terminal. Since 1981, Porto da Ciência has a terminal dedicated to petrochemical products, allowing the movement of materials through a dedicated pipeline. vessels and Petrochemical Complex located at ZILS – Scientific and Logistics Industry Area.
It is a multipurpose terminal and an LNG (liquefied natural gas Terminal) has been in operation since 2003 and serves more than 60% Natural gas Consumed in Portugal.
You probably know why Portugal is considered an ‘island of energy’.
Rich in renewable resources
Solar power panels are popping up everywhere, as are wind generators. Solar panels are not only terrestrial, but also floating. It is to get an exact figure of how several energy installations can be several, but they didn’t work in Portugal as days spent with only renewable energy. Portugal also has hydroelectricity, but a recent rainfall lacks its efficiency.
Portugal has long been planning the future
In all likelihood, it could have been predicted that Putin would Ukraine or cut off supplies, but Portugal ready. Both the Portuguese and Spanish governments seem to have been quiet but very efficient in making the Iberian Peninsula completely independent for energy. ‘Energy Island’ indeed!
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