Natural Gas: Imports

(asked on 28th June 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Gareth Snell Portrait
Gareth Snell
(Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the levels of gas imports into the UK were by country of origin in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

Answered by
Lord Harrington of Watford Portrait
Lord Harrington of Watford
This question was answered on 5th July 2017

The table below illustrates the latest published data for the last 12 months (May 2016 to April 2017) outlining the origin of gas imports into the UK rounded to the nearest 100.

GWh

Country

Gas imports May 2016 - April 2017

Norway

371,900

Qatar

93,400

Netherlands

29,500

Belgium

28,300

Algeria

5,500

Others

2,900

Total

531,500

The above table includes imports via pipeline and shipments of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).

Imports of natural gas by origin are published monthly in Energy Trends Table 4.4 on the BEIS section of the GOVUK website at this address: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/622757/ET_4.4.xls

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