Energy - Gas - Third party access: The Government organises third party access to underground storage facility for natural gas (Decree 21 august 2006)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Decree 2006-1034 of 21 August 2006 on access to underground natural gas storage facilities Gas consumption in an industrialized country is cyclical and roughly follows the rhythm of the seasons. The constraints on suppliers are therefore significant: they must be able to supply the quantities called for in real time, but these quantities must first pass through the network. It is therefore vital that at the main points of interconnection of the network with gas resources, suppliers have the required quantities available: they can come from pipeline imports from third country suppliers, from domestic gas fields (such as Lacq or the British North Sea or