Grandi Manovre per il Gas Naturale: Azerbaigian-Turchia… Italia?
7/8/2007John C.K. Daly su Eurasia Daily Monitor:
On July 26 Italian Minister for Economic Development Pier Luigi Bersani, Greek Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas, and Turkey’s Minister of Energy and Natural resources Turkish Hilmi Guler signed an intergovernmental agreement to build a $1.36 billion natural gas pipeline that will connect Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz gas field to Italy via Turkey and the Adriatic (Corriere Della Sera, July 26). The Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) pipeline, with a completion date of 2012, has a projected annual capacity of 11.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas. The Turkish-Greek link is expected to begin operations later this month, while construction of the 131-mile-long Greek-Italian undersea portion of the pipeline is to begin next year. Turkey will take 15%, or 1.74 billion cubic meters annually, of the TGI’s natural gas.
Nonostante i progetti alternativi al grande network russo di gasdotti siano spesso oggetto di critiche, non mancano nuove iniziative, per la riuscita delle quali il ruolo turco appare sempre più decisivo.
