GREECE AND ITALY SIGN GAS PIPELINE DEAL
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN and Greek governments have signed an agreement to build a gas interconnector between their countries, filling a missing link in the growing pipeline network bringing gas to western Europe from Turkey, the Caucasus and central Asia. Rome and Athens agreed to build a 220km underwater pipeline between the west coast of Greece and southern Italy: construction starts 2008 and gas movements by 2011.
THE ITALIAN and Greek governments have signed an agreement to build a gas interconnector between their countries, filling a missing link in the growing pipeline network bringing gas to western Europe from Turkey, the Caucasus and central Asia. Rome and Athens agreed to build a 220km underwater pipeline between the west coast of Greece and southern Italy: construction starts 2008 and gas movements by 2011.
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