Energy Minister: Gas Exploration Starts Off Southwest Greece
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"In coordination with DESFA, we have the opportunity to increase this capacity (to) up to 5 billion cubic meters per year," two senior executives at ICGB said, adding this should happen along with the commissioning of the LNG terminal off Alexandroupolis due in 2024.
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ExxonMobil´s ship is already in operation in the area, Energy and Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas said on state-run ERT television Thursday, just four days after Greece´s prime minister announced the project was to start.
ICGB, the owner of a second gas link between Greece and Bulgaria (IGB) - a key part of the Vertical Gas Corridor which began operations this year - and Gastrade, the developer of a floating storage and regasification unit off the northern Greek port of Alexandroupolis, also signed the agreement on Thursday.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece´s energy and environment minister says U.S.
energy giant ExxonMobil has begun prospecting for natural gas off the coast of southwestern Greece, kicking off a delayed project as Europe seeks alternative energy sources due to the war in Ukraine.
Skrekas, who holds the portfolios of both energy and environmental affairs, best private tours in Trikeri greece insisted there would be no conflict of interest between the two, and Trikeri guided tours that the main emphasis would be on environmental protection.
in the region of southeastern Europe, in our region," he said. "The reserves we speculate exist southwest of Crete and the Peloponnese might be the last hope the mining industry has to find a large reserve ...
"(It) is an important step towards the implementation of the Vertical Corridor, a project that will significantly contribute to the supply security of the wider region," Chief Executive of DESFA Maria Rita Galli said in the statement.
Environmental groups have argued that deep-sea prospecting for resources Critics also highlight the potential risk of spills, and say the project, if successful, private taxi Thessaloniki greece would increase Greece´s use of fossil fuels amid the planet´s climate change crisis.
The block reserved for the exploration includes part of the Hellenic Trench, where the Mediterranean´s deepest waters lie at more than 5,000 meters (17,000 feet).
The area is a vital habitat for the sea´s endangered sperm whales, and piraeus bus to Volos Airport for other cetaceans already threatened by fishing, collisions with ships and plastic pollution.
If viable gas deposits are eventually found, "no discounts will be made regarding safety and environmental protection" in any potential mining operations, taxi prices Thessaloniki greece he said. "All research is being done with the basic priority of the protection of the environment," he said, speaking later in the day at Greece´s Foreign Press Association.
Under the memorandum of understanding signed on Thursday on the sidelines of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) conference in Athens, Volos Airport escorted tours Greece's DESFA, Bulgaria's Bulgartransgaz, Hungary's FGSZ and Romania's SNTGN Transgaz agreed to begin talks on regulatory and economic aspects of the corridor, DESFA said in a statement.
ATHENS, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary agreed on Thursday to upgrade the interconnection and transport capacity of their gas grids, rafina to Thessaloniki airport taxi cost part of their long-standing efforts to diversify gas sources and boost their role in Europe's energy supply chain.
European countries have been scrambling to replace their former dependency on Russian fossil fuels following Russia´s invasion of Ukraine in February and the subsequent damaging of pipelines designed to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany.
Meanwhile, the prospecting also comes at a time of heightened tension with Turkey, with which Greece has been at loggerheads over offshore exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkish prospecting east of the southern Greek island of Crete two years ago prompted a military buildup.
