Enagás SA, Spain’s transmission system operator (TSO), has renewed talks to create more natural gas pipeline infrastructure between France and Spain in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

CEO Arturo Gonzalo said during a first quarter earnings call the company is “working closely” with its French TSO counterpart, Teréga SAS, to propose an additional interconnection between the countries. If approved by regulators, the project could revive the Midi-Catalonia Pipeline project, or MidCat, that was canceled in 2019 after French regulators ruled it wasn’t financially viable.

Gonzalo said the continued work on the interconnection wasn’t the result of changing policies by any one country or regulator, but an entirely different dynamic for the Western European energy...