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The Energos Winter has regasification capacity of about 450 million cubic feet per day, equivalent to roughly seven per cent of Egypt's daily gas consumption and 16 per cent of the country's total LNG receiving and regasification capacity, according to Egyptian consultancy ElAdl Studies.

"The outage is not expected to create an immediate supply gap because Egypt has alternative import facilities and fuel options available, but it would reduce spare capacity in the system at a time of peak summer demand," an ElAdl note said.

Some of the options, it said, include maximising other regasification units, increasing use of fuel oil as backup fuel, tapping renewable energy capacity, and, as a last resort, temporarily reducing gas supplies to some industrial activities.

(Reporting by Marwa Rashad, Mohamed Ezz and Jonathan Saul; Additional reporting by Nathan Chiang, Monica Naime, Nora Buli, and Tala Ramadan; Editing by Alex Richardson, David Gregorio and Ros Russell)