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LNG imports rose by 39.2 percent year-on-year to 22.4 TWh in April and accounted for 71.5 percent of the total gas imports, according to the preliminary monthly report by LNG terminal operator Enagas.
Imports dropped compared to 25.2 TWh in March, which marked a 39.8 percent year-on-year rise.
Including pipeline imports from Algeria (7.81 TWh), France, and Portugal, gas imports to Spain reached about 32.9 TWh last month, a rise from 26.8 TWh in April last year, the report shows.
Moreover, national gas demand in April rose by 2.3 percent year-on-year to 23 TWh.
Demand for power generation increased by 24.3 percent year-on-year to 5.53 TWh last month, while conventional demand decreased by 3.1 percent to 17.5 TWh, the LNG terminal operator said.
In April, storage facilities were 69 percent full, compared to 84 percent in the same month last year and 63 percent in the prior month.
Enagas operates a large network of gas pipelines in Spain and has three wholly-owned LNG import plants in Barcelona, Huelva, and Cartagena.
It also owns 75 percent of the Musel LNG facility, 50 percent of the BBG regasification plant in Bilbao, and 72.5 percent of the Sagunto plant, while Reganosa operates the Mugardos plant.
The seven operational Spanish LNG regasification terminals unloaded 22 cargoes last month, up by five cargoes compared to April 2024.
The US was the biggest LNG supplier to Spain in March with 14.5 TWh, a substantial rise compared to 2.1 TWh last year, and the country was followed by Russia with 4.38 TWh, down from 5.34 TWh last year, and Algeria with 2 TWh, down from 3.93 TWh last year.
Spain also received 1.1 TWh from Peru, 0.91 TWh from Congo, and 0.61 TWh from Norway.
Spanish LNG terminals loaded about 1 TWh in April, two times more than 0.45 TWh in April 2024.
Reloads also rose compared to 0.54 TWh in March.
Spanish terminals reloaded 1.67 TWh in February and 0.92 TWh in January.
During April, the Barcelona terminal reloaded 0.18 TWh, the Cartagena terminal reloaded 0.17 TWh, and the Huelva terminal reloaded 0.16 TWh.
Enagas said 64.4 percent of the loaded volumes in April landed in the EU, 30.8 percent of the volumes were used for bunkering, and the rest landed in non-EU countries.
Moreover, truck loading operations at the LNG terminals decreased by 7.6 percent in April year-on-year to 928.
The data shows that last month, the Barcelona LNG terminal completed 181 truckloads, the Cartagena terminal completed 166 truckloads, and the Huelva terminal completed 161 truckloads.
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