Spain has large LNG storage capacities.
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Madrid, Rome Spain is moving into the focus of European energy policy with a new pipeline project. In order to transport gas abroad, a new underwater pipeline is planned, which will run from Barcelona through the Mediterranean Sea to northern Italy. Corresponding plans were confirmed by the head of the Spanish gas network operator Enagás, Arturo Gonzalo, to foreign correspondents in Madrid.
Enagás and the Italian operator SNAM are currently having the technical details checked in a feasibility study. The results for the project, which is expected to cost around 2.5 to three billion euros, should be available in three months.
In the course of the Ukraine war, the EU countries are trying desperately to find a substitute for Russian energy supplies. Germany, for example, is hoping for long-term deliveries of liquid gas from Qatar and held intensive talks with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in May.
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