UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said in a report that UK produced gas accounted for 54 per cent of inputs to UK transmission systems in 2011, but imports exceeded UK production for the first time.
Net import dependency increased to 48 per cent, DECC said.
However, despite lower UK production, gas exports were at record levels, higher even than when UK gas production peaked in 2000.
In 2011 there were large increase in imports of LNG (liquefied natural gas), with imports from Qatar at similar levels to those for pipeline gas from Norway.
UK gas demand was at its lowest level since 1995, due to a combination of milder weather and reduced use by generators, DECC said.
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LNG World News Staff, February 23, 2012; Image: Dragon LNG