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March 8 (Reuters) - Spain's natural gas imports fell 12.1%
in January compared with the same month a year earlier,
government data showed on Wednesday.
Spain imported the equivalent of 33.271 gigawatt-hours (GWh)
of natural gas in January, Cores, an arm of the Energy and
Environment Ministry, said in a statement.
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine a year ago, Spain has
been receiving most of its gas in the form of seaborne liquefied
natural gas.
These shipments represented 67.3% of the total imports,
while purchases through pipelines made up 32.7%, Cores said.
Algeria was the main supplier of natural gas to Spain in
January, accounting for 25.7% of the total, followed by the
United States (21.3%).
Spain re-exported the equivalent of 7.4 GWh of gas - an
increase of 107% compared with January 2022 - mainly to France.
In January, Russian gas accounted for 19.2% of Spain's
imports.
(Reporting by Matteo Allievi and Jakub Olesiuk, editing by
David Latona and Louise Heavens)
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