Brits threaten to cut off European gas supply if there is a shortage

June 29, 2022
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If a gas shortage arises, the United Kingdom will cut the connection to the European gas network according to the government’s emergency gas plan. In the long term, this would mainly cut the country’s own skin.

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There are six large gas terminals and two so-called interconnectors in the British coastal town of Bacton: large white pipes that link the United Kingdom’s gas network to the European network. In the summer, excess gas goes via Bacton to Zeebrugge and Balgzand in the Netherlands. In winter, when demand in the UK is higher, Europe exports gas through the same interconnectors.

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But if a gas shortage threatens in the coming months, the United Kingdom will cut that connection, writes the business newspaper Financial Times. That would be a blow to international energy solidarity, which the European Union insists on.

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Temper consumption

Closing off the interconnectors is one of the measures in the British emergency gas plan. Other measures include the cessation of gas supplies to large industrial companies and calls on households to consume less.

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European gas companies are urging the UK not to end the two-way traffic. “I would advise them to reconsider the decision,” Bart Jan Hoevers, chairman of the European gas operator network ENTSOG, told the Financial Times. ‘While that connection is advantageous for the mainland in the summer, it is advantageous for the UK in the winter.’

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Little worries

Today, 75 million cubic meters of gas flows every day from the United Kingdom to Europe, where countries replenish their gas supplies for the winter. But in cold winters, such as in 2018, the British get up to a quarter of their gas via the connection with Europe.

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Our country is not very concerned at the moment, according to both Fluxys and the government. The UK still draws sufficient gas from its own wells in the North Sea and the gas pipeline from Norway. In addition, the country relies on liquid LNG, which is delivered via ships. The chance that the British will get into trouble therefore seems rather small. In the long term, the country would cut its own skin by cutting the connection with Europe.

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The Belgian Minister of Energy Tinne Van der Straeten (Green) will be in London on Friday, where she will meet the state secretary for Energy Kwasi Kwarteng. The mutual gas supply may also be discussed during that meeting.

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Research into new CO2 pipeline to Norway

The Belgian gas network operator Fluxys and the energy company Equinox are investigating the construction of an undersea CO₂pipeline from Zeebrugge to Norway. The 1,000 kilometer long pipeline would capture CO₂ from the industry from Zeebrugge to Norway. There the CO₂ end up in storage depots in the North Sea, off the Norwegian coast.

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The submarine pipeline would be linked to CO . in Zeebrugge₂onshore transport pipelines that Fluxys wants to build. Also CO₂from neighboring countries could go through the pipeline to the Norwegian storage depots. CO₂can come to Zeebrugge by ship, but branches from the pipeline to the port of Dunkirk and to other countries in northwestern Europe are also being considered.

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A feasibility study on the project is currently underway. Fluxys and Equinor want to decide in 2025 whether to carry out the project. If the investment is made, the pipeline should be ready for use by 2030.

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Temper consumption

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