Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission has approved the start-up of the El Musel LNG imports and regasification terminal in of Gijon port, the country’s north coast.
Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission has approved the start-up of the El Musel LNG imports and regasification terminal in of Gijon port, the country’s north coast.
According to the
Global LNG Database®, the Enagas-operated El Musel facility has been technically completed but never came into operation since 2012.
The terminal has 5 MMT/Y regasification capacity and 2 above ground full-containment tanks to store 300,000-CM LNG. It is also capable to accommodate LNG carriers with 60,000-CM to 260,000-CM capacity.
Enagas had requested to start-up the facility in April as Spain intends to use the terminal for LNG logistics services and dedicate it to receiving and re-exporting LNG to other European countries struggling to break their dependence on gas piped from Russia.
Earlier, Spain’s energy minister Teresa Ribera had said that the El Musel terminal would not be connected to the Spanish gas grid but would be used "to give more flexibility to the system".
The start-up of the facility will allow Europe to be granted greater storage capacity at the current tight situation due to the gas supply cut by Russia.
Spain has broken the historical record for gas supply to the electricity sector on 16-June as Enagas reported that 764 GWh of gas supplied to power generations.
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