Since the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME) resumed service on June 28, 2022 in reverse flow, the quantities of gas shipments previously purchased by the Kingdom on international markets and unloaded in Spanish regasification plants have increased. exponential.
An activity that should bring in Spain 2 million euros annually, revealed the government of Pedro Sanchez in a response to a written question formulated by deputies of the Popular Party, indicates an Iberian media. To this figure must be added payments for the unloading of ships, the storage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the use of the transport network, specifies the executive.
The government claims to have given no preferential treatment to Morocco. Like the rest of the companies, the kingdom “pays the tariffs in force for access to regasification plants, approved by the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) in its resolution of May 19 of the year last, in which the tolls for this year 2023 were established’. The contractual annual tariff for regasification services “includes a fixed annual capacity term of 0.083560 euros (kWh/day)/year and a variable term of 0.000057 euros/kWh for each regasified KWh. There is therefore no preferential treatment for Morocco”, underlines the same source.
The latest statistics delivered by the manager Enagás, showed an increase in Spanish exports of quantities of gas to Morocco, Iberian media report. The Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME) transported 536 GWh to Morocco last January. This is the second highest figure since the implementation of this mechanism in June 2022, by mutual agreement between the governments of Rabat and Madrid, after the 553 GWh achieved in November. The activation in reverse flow of the GME has above all allowed the revival of the activities of the two power plants of Tahaddart and Aïn Beni Mathar, forced to stop for more than a year following the decision of Algeria to close the gas pipeline. Maghreb-Europe, October 31, 2021.
