Understanding Rough energy storage
Rough is a natural gas storage facility under the North Sea off the east coast of England. It is capable of storing 100 billion cubic feet of gas, nearly double the storage capacities in operation in Great Britain in 2021.First opened in 1985, it was closed by Centrica Storage Ltd in 2017 because of the need for costly maintenance, the UK.
Production licences for the Rough field were given in 1964, and gas was first brought ashore toin 1975. In 1980,(which became
The facility had made a profit for its owners by exploiting the difference in gas price between summer and winter. Gas was injected for storage when its future price on the commoditiesrose.
In June 2017, Centrica announced the closure of the Rough gas storage site on the grounds that it was uneconomical and had reached the end of its design life.In May 2022, the , .
The facility consists of a partially depleted(the Rough field) in the Southern , approximately 18 miles (29 km) off the east coast ofat.The field is divided into two complexes around two kilometres (1.2 mi).
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