The UK is looking to restart what once was the country’s largest natural gas storage facility, but it may not be in time for the coming winter.

Great Britain’s largest energy supplier, Centrica plc, was awarded a gas storage license by the North Sea Transition Authority to reopen the Rough storage site off the eastern coast of England. 

Rough once provided about 70% of the UK’s gas storage capacity, but it was closed by Centrica in 2017.  Capacity was about 100 Bcf, with a deliverability rate of 1.5 Bcf/d.

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