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Rough (offshore) gas storage

Rough (offshore) is a depleted field gas storage site in the United Kingdom, operated by Centrica, in service since 1985. Its technical working gas volume is 16.9 TWh, 1.1% of the 1 569 TWh across the 134 European sites on this site. It can withdraw up to 124 GWh a day and inject 101 GWh a day. Status: operational.

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CountryUnited Kingdom
TypeDepleted field (offshore)
OperatorsCentrica
Working gas16.9 TWh
Withdrawal124 GWh/d
Injection101 GWh/d
Locationapproximate (town level): 53.830, 0.459

Source: GIE (Gas Infrastructure Europe) Storage Database. Locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). GIE Storage Database (Storage Map 2026), data as of Aug 2026, published 26 Aug 2026.

Last updated: (data). Page built 2026-10-17.