Liquefied natural gas from the United States made up 33.8% of Spain’s total gas imports in February, as the country’s gas imports rose almost 20% from the same month last year, data showed on Tuesday.
The U.S. has become Europe’s dominant supplier of LNG as the region pushed to phase out energy imports from Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.
In February, Spain imported the equivalent of 31,422 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of gas, sharply up from the 26,318 GWh it imported a year earlier, according to data from Spanish gas grid operator Enagas.
Spain imported 10,612 GWh of gas from the United States, while Algeria, traditionally Spain’s largest gas supplier, which mostly pumps gas directly to Spain through pipelines, was the second biggest supplier with 9,151 GWh of gas, about 29% of the total imported.
Natural gas imports from Russia accounted for 14.6% of supply in February, declining roughly 52% in absolute terms from a year ago.
(Reporting by Joao Manuel Mauricio in Gdansk)
