Nigeria is the biggest supplier of gas and oil to Portugal, it is said on Facebook
“Find out where the gas and oil that Portugal imports comes from. Who would say, is Nigeria our biggest supplier“, read in a September 6 publication on Facebook, where an infographic from the database is shared by dateon Portuguese natural oil and gas.
In Portugal, one dependency rate of crude oil, natural gas and solid round solids, in 2020, the 65%whereas in the year 2000 it was greater than 85%. As the Polygraph has already acquired, the European Union mainly depends on Russia for the main supplier of oil and natural gas. Even so, the situation in Portugal is not as serious as in the other members.
For the Portuguese, the one from Russia represented, in 2020, only about 9.7% of all things. In fact, almost 54% of the natural gas imported by Portugal actually comes from Nigeria, as the publication under analysis notes. With only Russia, 19% of the weight is Portuguese, there is the USA, which as we have already mentioned, followed by Algeria.
According to statistic data of Eurostat, in countries such as France (17%), the Netherlands (26%), Turkey (34%), Greece (38%), Lithuania (42%), Italy (43%), Romania (45%), Estonia (46%), Liechtenstein (47%), Poland (55%), Germany (66%), Finland (67%), Serbia (69%), Bulgaria (75%), Slovakia (85%), Hungary ( 95%), Czech Republic (100%), Latvia (100%), North Macedonia (100%) and Moldova (100%) this percentage is quite high. highestleaving Portugal among the least important countries natural gas from Russia.
The Polygraph consulted the most recent official data, available on the Directorate-General for Energy and Geology (DGEG)where, with regard to the 2nd generation of natural gas, it was to Nigeria that most natural gas arrived (LNG Portugal. The transport was through the United States and by boats, which also arrived in the United States, only in a few and Trinidad. Spain is also an important supplier of gas destined for Portugal, with natural transport by pipeline and truck. As for oil and results, Dice for 2020 (most recent year) show that it is mainly Brazil and Spain that reach the most significant amount, as highlighted in the Pordata infographic.
In short, for the year 2020 (and thereafter), the natural gas imported by Portugal had majority origin in Nigeria. Although, this country was not the main supplier of oil and products imported by Portugal. Ahead of the Nigerians, in 2020, came Brazil and Spain. Angola and Saudi Arabia also have a weight in the healthiness of oil.
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Editorial note: Following this published article, the Polygraph was contacted by Pordata, claiming that the piece implied that the error was presented in the infographic produced by the database. Having said that, we believe that this is not at issue: it is the study, carried out by a user of social networks, which is misleading (leading to believe that Nigeria is oil, the largest supplier of oil and oil to Portugal) .
However, both in Pordata’s infographic and on the DGEG website (consulted by the Polygraph) these data are clearly stated: it is not Nigeria but Brazil that is the main supplier of oil to Portugal. The co-author Pordata study notes that the author is related to further studying that the largest exporter of gas and oil summed: “To reach this conclusion, however, it is necessary to make a little more complex calculations, converting the accounting for each product (natural gas, crude oil, diesel, gasoline, fuel oil, jet fuel, etc.) equivalents) of oil).”
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