zero flows entering Tarvisio- Corriere.it

Russian gas is also stopped for Italy, at least for today, 1st October: the flows entering Tarvisio, the entry point for supplies on the border between Friuli and Austria, are zero. «Gazprom – reads the note published by Eni on the website around 1 pm on October 1st – has communicated nounable to confirm delivery of the volumes of gas required for today due to the declared impossibility of transporting the gas through Austria. Today, therefore, the flows of Russian gas destined for Eni through the Tarvisio entry point will be zero. Eni reserves the right to communicate any resumption of supplies ».

No technical problems

So, Moscow’s first retaliations also arrive against our country, because as we understand from the explanation of the group led by the Six-legged Dog – there are no technical problems to the pipeline as the methane reaches the Svolacchia. “Starting today – explained the spokesman for Eni-Gazprom he is no longer delivering gas to Eni since, according to his communications, would not be able to fulfill the obligations necessary to obtain the service dispatch of gas in Austria where it should deliver it. However, we understand that Austria is continuing to receive gas at the delivery point at the Slovakia / Austria border. We are working to verify with Gazprom if it is possible to reactivate the flows towards Italy ».

The risks for Italy

After the first outage of Nord Stream 1 in August transporting Siberian gas to continental European countries such as Germany via the Baltic Sea and the recent leaks in Nord Stream 1 and 2 (probably caused by an act of sabotage) which caused the leakage of a very large quantity of gas, the level of attention to strategic infrastructures in Italy had already increased, so much so that in Tarvisio, the Snam compression plant is controlled by the Italian military. What is the risk of our country if Moscow were to block gas flows also for the next few days and for the whole winter? The Russian gas supply compared to the totalavailable to Italy was now less than 10%, because currently gas comes mainly from Algeria (our first supplier) and from Azerbaijan and partly also from the North via Passo Gries in Piedmont, so the situation does not change significantly, the system is balanced and the operators are continuing to replenish the reserves. But this further move by Gazprom, if confirmed in the next few days, makes the need to install the new regasifiers even more urgent, in particular the LNG carrier in Piombino which will allow, starting from next spring-summer, to refill the storage for the next winter through the additional liquefied natural gas that we have secured for the next few years.

Eni’s projects

Eni’s plan to strengthen and diversify supplies to Italy will progressively replace the more than 20 billion cubic meters per year of volumes of Russian gas imported up to last year by Eni itself. As for methane via pipeline, additional supplies are already significantly arriving from Algeria, from where we are receiving daily peaks in volumes of over 80 million cubic meters. From Algeria, an additional 6 billion cubic meters will progressively arrive between now and 2023, which will reach 9 billion between 2023 and 2024, doubling Eni’s imports from Algeria from 9 to 18 billion cubic meters per year when fully operational in 2024. This winter we will then be able to count on about 4 billion cubic meters additional from Northern Europe and on the first additional LNG supplies in particular from Egypt. Furthermore, from next spring, all the additional LNG will begin to arrive in an important way from countries such as Egypt, Qatar, Congo, Angola and Nigeria, for a total of 4 billion in 2023 and 7 billion in 2024. Then it will rise further. Basically, we will have about 10 billion additional cubic meters already this winter (over 50% of Russian gas in Eni’s portfolio), we will exceed the additional 17 billion cubic meters between 2023 and 2024 (about 80%) and then reach 22 billions in the winter of 2024-2025 (surplus with respect to Russian gas), with the weight of LNG which will gradually increase.