Centrica granted consent for Rough gas storage site until April 2027
Key Highlights
- Centrica has been granted a production and storage consent for the Rough gas storage site.
- The decree is granted until Apr. 30, 2027.
Centrica Offshore UK Ltd. has been granted a production and storage consent for the Rough gas storage site off the East Coast of England in the Southern North Sea by the North Sea Transition Authority.
Rough is about 29 km off the east coast of Yorkshire and can provide half of the UK’s total gas storage capacity. The site contains a Rotliegendes sandstone reservoir about 2.7 km under the seabed and is filled with natural gas when demand is low and withdrawn when demand is high.
At full capacity Rough can store about 13.5 days of average total UK gas use, including non-domestic users and gas fired power generation. The storage capacity exceeds 150 bcf.
Rough is owned and operated by Centrica Storage Ltd, a subsidiary of Centrica, and is managed from the nearby Easington gas processing terminal. The consent decree is granted until Apr. 30, 2027.