Since February, the UK’s gas interconnector imports are being displaced in the gas supply mix by a surge in LNG imports.
Month-on-month the gas supply mix has changed, with interconnector imports and LNG send-out going from 4.6% and 17.0% of total gas supply in February, to 0.1% and 20.6% respectively in March. Our chart this week looks at the changing tides of our gas supply mix, which has resulted in 41 LNG tankers arriving in GB terminals in Q119, up from 8 in Q118.
Alex Mcgregor
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