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Natural Gas: Imports

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 13 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much and what proportion of the UK's gas consumption was imported from each country as (a) liquid natural gas and (b) a gas in the latest period for which figures are available. (310101)

The latest published figures for imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and pipeline gas by country are for 2008. The following tables show volumes of gas imported by country expressed as a proportion of gas put into the national transmission systems, i.e. available for consumption.

(a) Liquefied natural gas 2008

Imported from

Volume (million cubic metres)

Percentage of imports put into the UK inland transmission systems

Algeria

287

0.3

Trinidad and Tobago

535

0.6

(b) Pipeline natural gas 2008

Imported from

Volume (million cubic metres)

Percentage of imports put into the UK inland transmission systems

Belgium

1,127

1.2

Netherlands

8,440

9.0

Norway

25,528

27.2

More recent monthly figures for imports of LNG by country are not available because of commercial sensitivity issues. However, imports and exports of natural gas are published monthly in Energy Trends Table 4.3 on the DECC website at this address:

http://www.decc.gov.uk/media/viewfile.ashx?filepath=statistics/source/gas/et4_3.xls&filetype=4

In volume terms these figures show the following:

Imports of natural gas in the 10 months to October 2009

Imported from

Volume (million cubic metres)

Percentage of imports put into the UK inland transmission systems

Liquefied natural gas (various sources)

7,067

10.4

Belgium

140

0.2

Netherlands

4,562

6.7

Norway

18,700

27.6