Gas Carousel Making Spain Europe’s Biggest LNG Exporter

Spain overtook Norway last month to become the region’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas but Spain’s gas use dropped eight per cent last year. “Spanish demand for the gas probably won’t recover any time soon” predicts Stephen Rogers, a partner at consultancy Arthur D. Little in London. “It is likely to be many months, or possibly years, before Spain needs all of the gas that it has contracted for use in powering its own economy” he added.

Gas Carousel Making Spain Europe’s Biggest LNG Exporter

Spain overtook Norway last month to become the region’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas but Spain’s gas use dropped eight per cent last year. “Spanish demand for the gas probably won’t recover any time soon” predicts Stephen Rogers, a partner at consultancy Arthur D. Little in London. “It is likely to be many months, or possibly years, before Spain needs all of the gas that it has contracted for use in powering its own economy” he added.