To Madrid
We see it live on the application of the Spanish gas network operator, Enagas: on the map of Spain where the flows of this hydrocarbon are represented, the international connection of Tarifa, in the extreme south of the peninsula, is active again, after an eight-month hiatus.
A negative figure is displayed: - 135.666, could we read Thursday, a little before noon.
In other words, just over 135,000 cubic meters left Spain to travel the Maghreb Europe gas pipeline in a direction never taken before: from north to south.
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Since last Tuesday and for the first time since the gas pipeline was inaugurated in 1996, it is not a question of supplying Spain with Algerian gas via transit through Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar... but of supplying the Morocco in liquefied gas, purchased on international markets, delivered to the Spanish coast by LNG tanker, regasified in a Spanish power plant and injected into the tubes of Maghreb Europe.
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