Paris is reportedly skeptical the MidCat pipeline to Central Europe would help with the energy crisis
A major gas pipeline project advocated by Madrid and Berlin has faced resistance from Paris, El Pais and several other Spanish news outlets reported this week, citing a letter by the French Ministry of Energy Transition.
Spain imports natural gas from Algeria through two undersea pipelines – the Maghreb-Europe and the Medgaz.
Dubbed the Midi-Catalonia Pipeline or MidCat, the project aimed to create a gas transit network spanning hundreds of kilometers across Spain and France and provide some 7.5 billion cubic meters of gas transit capacity. It was first pitched in 2015, but was canceled in 2019 by France, which was to cover a major portion of its costs and deemed it financially non-viable.
The MidCat idea was revived in…
