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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the closure of the Rough gas storage facility, how many days’ worth of natural gas can now be stored in the UK, based on the UK’s average daily consumption.

The UK currently has a total gas storage capacity of 2.5 billion cubic metres (bcm), in the form of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) stored at terminals (1.2bcm) and gas stored underground (1.3bcm)[1].

Based on the average daily demand (209 million cubic metres/day)¹, the UK’s total gas storage capacity is equivalent to 12 days of average demand (6 days from LNG stocks, and 6 days from underground storage).

[1] Capacity and demand data sources: https://www.nationalgridgas.com/data-and-operations/transmission-operational-data