Spain gas exports to Morocco drop nearly 24 percent

Official data published in Spain point to a significant drop in natural gas exports to Morocco. After steady growth since the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline was reopened in reverse-flow mode in June 2022, export volumes fell by nearly 24% in the first months of this year compared with the same period in 2025, Iberian media reported on Sunday.

The decline marks a break with the upward trend that began in 2022, when the Spanish government authorized the reverse use of the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline to supply Morocco, following Algeria’s closure of the pipeline in October 2021.

Since that decision, Morocco has become one of the main destinations for gas re-exported by Spain, with volumes reaching record levels in 2024 and early 2025.

As a reminder, in 2024, Spain exported to Morocco around 10,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of natural gas through the Maghreb-Europe pipeline, making the kingdom one of Madrid’s main customers, behind France (9,362 GWh) and Portugal (4,056 GWh).

Although Spain does not produce natural gas, it has strategic energy infrastructure, including the Medgaz and Maghreb-Europe pipelines, six regasification plants, and several underground storage sites. This allows it to play a key role in redistributing gas within Europe and to Morocco.

Since the start of the war in Iran on February 28, gas prices in Europe have risen by 70%.