Rough (facility)

Rough is a natural gas storage facility situated off the east coast of England.

History

Licences for the Rough Field were given in 1964. Gas was brought ashore to Easington in 1975. In 1985 when the field was depleted, gas was stored in the reservoir. In 1997 it was run by BG Storage. In 2001, BG Storage sold the Rough Facility to Dynergy. In 2002, Centrica bought the plant back from Dynergy for £304m.

Operation

The facility consists of a partially depleted gas field (the Rough field) in the Southern North Sea, approximately 18 miles off the east coast of Yorkshire, together with an onshore gas processing terminal at Easington, approximately 27 miles south east of Hull. The Rough facility is operated by Centrica Storage Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Centrica. Nearly 200 staff and contractors are employed within the operation, both onshore and offshore. It has a storage capacity of 2.8 BCM which is the vast majority of the UK's gas storage capacity.

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