Soldato
If it's not exported where do you suggest the gas is stored?
I believe what happen was that the UKs capacity for LNG "production" was above demand and hence we agreed as part of multi national cooperation in the energy market (that happens all the time without any government intervention) to use our facilities to increase "production"* and to then export across the as already stated existing and normal pipes
As discussed before parts of the continent had a shortage of LNG processing as they had used the cheaper direct land route previously
* production being to allow the expansion of the imported liquified gas into its normal state