British Energy Ministry: Medgaz an important achievement

British Ministry of Energy and Climate Change welcomes here on Saturday the launch of Medgaz pipeline which will contribute to the development of the linkage between the European Union, spokesman of the Ministry Mr. Jerry Miller told APS.

“This achievement will allow a better link between the EU and other country, especially as it represents access to other supply sources for EU”, he added.

Gas pipeline Medgaz, stretching over 1,050 km length including 550km on the Algerian soil, was opened on 1 April. It will carry annually up to 8 billion cubic meter gas to Europe, extensible to 16 billion M3 on middle term.

Statistics by the British Ministry of Energy show that the UK imported from Algeria over 1,089 billion cubic meters of gas in 2010, the equivalent of 2% Algeria’s exports of natural gas and 5.7% of gas liquids and 1.1% of net demand.

Same statistics indicate that the UK’s imports of gas from Europe through the future gas pipeline from Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands, while the natural gas liquids are imported from Qatar, Trinidad and Tobago and Algeria.

UK is top of European countries in the area of energy consumption with the amount of 103 billion cubic meters of gas, followed by Germany. It’s demand on gas is expected to rise to 130 billion cubic meters.