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GasNaturally is a partnership of seven associations.
GasNaturally is a partnership of seven associations from across the whole gas value chain. Our members are involved in gas exploration and production, transmission, distribution, wholesale and retail operations, as well as gas in transport.
Joint Statement of the Czech Presidency and GasNaturally on the Future of Gaseous Fuels in the EU Energy Market
On 11 October 2022, ahead of the Informal Energy Council meeting organised by the Czech Presidency in Prague, the Czech Minister for Industry and Trade, Jozef Síkela, and GasNaturally’s co-chair, F...
58 CEOs and associations call for enhancing gas contribution to decarbonisation
On 19 October, 58 CEOs and associations representing the European gas sector have sent a letter calling on the EU institutions to ensure that all EU financial mechanisms recognize gas as an indispensa...
GasNaturally Press Release on the European Commission’s Proposals on the Gas Market Reform and Methane Initiative
GasNaturally welcomes the reform of the EU natural gas market and the new regulation of methane emissions from the energy sector. This opens opportunities to accelerate the market integration of low-c...
Gas in Numbers
25%
Reduction of CO2 emissions in transport with the use of CNG compared to conventional fuels
5.100 billion
5.100 billion cubic meters of commercial and technically recoverable natural gas resources in Europe
2.2 Million
2.2 million kilometres of pipelines in Europe
227 billion
227 billion cubic meters of annual regasification capacity of large-scale LNG terminals in Europe
66%
Reduction of CO2 emissions in gas-fired power generation compared to coal
80 billion
€80 billion of net government revenues from gas in the EU28 and Norway (2015)
85%
Average annual increase in biomethane production in Europe since 2013
4
EU citizens pay around 4 times more per kilowatt hour (kWh) for electricity than for gas
20
Transporting gas can be more than 20 times less costly than transporting electricity (€/GWh/d/km)
32
Number of power-to-gas demonstration installations in Europe
50
There is enough gas storage available in the EU to meet 50 days of peak gas demand
0.32%
Anthropogenic CO2 equivalent of methane emissions in the European natural gas midstream sectors (2015)
0.6%
Share of methane emissions from the gas industry in total EU GHG emissions (2017)
51%
Reduction in fugitive methane emissions from natural gas activities between 1990 and 2016
90%
Reduction of NOx emissions in shipping with the use of LNG compared to conventional fuels