European Gas Storage

An Operator View on Gas Storage in France and the UK

Editor
February 12, 2018

UK : a favorable gas policy by limited intervention in gas storage.• With a current 6% ratio (storage capacity/ gas consumption), the UK is well below EU average (14%) • The security of supply relies today mainly on Rough availability (75% of the..

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