According to information from the Italian energy supplier Eni, Russia has temporarily stopped supplying gas to the Mediterranean country. The Russian company Gazprom announced that it can no longer supply gas via Austria, Eni announced on Saturday. Russian gas normally arrives in and is distributed from the Italian-Austrian border town of Tarvisio in Italy.
An Eni spokesperson told the ANSA news agency that Gazprom had announced it was no longer able to deliver in Austria. However, according to information from Eni, the Alpine Republic continues to receive Russian gas, the spokesman said.
Striving for gas independence
By the time war broke out in Ukraine, Italy had received about 40 percent of its gas from Russia. Subsequently, the government in Rome and the semi-state company Eni signed agreements with a number of other countries – such as Algeria – to minimize dependence on Moscow.
Eni boss Claudio Descalzi recently stated at an Italian energy summit: “In two and a half years we will be completely independent from Russia. Algeria’s contribution has more than doubled immediately at the outbreak of the crisis.”
In recent months, it has been said that Italy only gets about 25 percent of its gas from Russia. Delivery quantities have fallen sharply in recent days.
Source: Krone
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