{"id":913,"date":"2022-07-31T19:28:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=913"},"modified":"2022-07-31T19:28:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T19:28:28","slug":"swiss-on-track-to-secure-winter-gas-reserves-sonntagsblick-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/913\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss on track to secure winter gas reserves, SonntagsBlick reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>Switzerland is on track to secure the natural gas reserves it is seeking for the winter heating season, the SonntagsBlick paper cited a utility sector official as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has instructed gas suppliers to line up reserves in neighbouring countries equivalent to 15% of the country&#8217;s annual consumption of 35 terrawatt hours and to secure additional options for non-Russian gas of around 6 terrawatt hours, a fifth of winter consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Switzerland does not have it own gas storage capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Regional (gas) companies have now reached between 75 and 100% of the target for building up gas reserves in gas storage facilities,&#8221; the paper quoted Thomas Hegglin of the Swiss Gas Industry Association as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regional utilities were also on track to secure the envisioned options by November, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Switzerland gets its gas via trading hubs in neighbouring countries in the European Union, so disruptions there would also affect Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Switzerland has relatively low demand for gas, which covers around 15% of its total energy consumption. Around 42% of the gas is used to heat households, and the rest in industry and the service and transport sectors, according to government data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just under half of Swiss gas imports come directly or indirectly from Russia, the government has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporting by Michael Shields; Editing by Hugh Lawson<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2022-07-31T19:28:28+00:00\"> 31 July 2022<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland is on track to secure the natural gas reserves it is seeking for the winter heating season, the SonntagsBlick paper cited a utility sector official as saying. The government has instructed gas suppliers to line up reserves in neighbouring countries equivalent to 15% of the country&#8217;s annual consumption of 35 terrawatt hours and to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,20,18,36,19],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-gas","category-headline","category-lastnews","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}