Palermo Trapani
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Northerner: Regarding what I said about Italy forming partnerships with SE Europeans countries (i.e.Balkans), I also said along with Central and Eastern Europeans. Greece should be a natural ally. Turkey wants to ship Gas into Greece and wants to link up that pipeline with Italy (The TANAP pipeline) in Brindisi (Puglia). I think Turkey has a huge Gas field in the Black Sea (in its territory) that is expected to come on line in 2023.
If Meloni wins, call the Polish leaders. Poland in 2020 signed a 20 year LNG gas deal with the USA (during Trump's presidency) specifically to reduce reliance on "Russian Oil and Gas". Remember Trump calling out Frauleine Merkel and the Germans for "getting Europe to dependent on Russian Oil and Gas". I sure do.
https://www.reuters.com/article/poland-energy-lng-idUSL8N2E12PB
Again here is the current North African to Europe pipeline network. Notice the red line from Nigeria to Algeria. Morroco just signed a deal with Nigeria to let Nigerian gas flow through its borders to Spain. Even you pointed out that the Germans are now "working with Spain" (not dictating to Spain) to get France on board. France and Algeria are not on best terms do to France not acknowledging it did many Nuclear test in Algeria's desert on the one hand (Algerian perspective) and Algeria not working with France to help deport criminal illegal migrants. I suspect the diplomatic tension between France and Algeria is the hold up.
https://en.populationdata.net/maps/africa-europe-gas-pipelines/
But in light of the North African gas network into Europe. Italy is indeed in a strategic position. Italy can sign a deal with Tunisia, Algeria and Nigeria to ship Gas into Italy via Sicily and Sardinia along with working with Libya to ship it directly into Gela in Sicily. Connecting Brindisi with Greece and linking up Turkey could provide another source. Seem to me a network from Turkey through Greece into Italy in Brindisi (Puglia) can be linked with the pipeline coming into Sicily somewhere in Calabria. Gas then can be shipped from Nigeria all the through North Africa into Italy and then back through Greece into the Balkans then well into Central Europe, etc.
So I can look at a map, look at existing infrastructure (which Italy is already significantly linked into) and see Italy's potential to be a major player in the Gas distribution process in Europe. And rather than being dictated to by the likes of Merkel when she was in charge of Germany, or Macron in France, they can negotiate the terms from a position of lets say "equal partners" or lets say strategic leverage (to be diplomatic, not a power play which has always been the method of the major EU Western European powers, Germany and France).
If Meloni wins, call the Polish leaders. Poland in 2020 signed a 20 year LNG gas deal with the USA (during Trump's presidency) specifically to reduce reliance on "Russian Oil and Gas". Remember Trump calling out Frauleine Merkel and the Germans for "getting Europe to dependent on Russian Oil and Gas". I sure do.
https://www.reuters.com/article/poland-energy-lng-idUSL8N2E12PB
Again here is the current North African to Europe pipeline network. Notice the red line from Nigeria to Algeria. Morroco just signed a deal with Nigeria to let Nigerian gas flow through its borders to Spain. Even you pointed out that the Germans are now "working with Spain" (not dictating to Spain) to get France on board. France and Algeria are not on best terms do to France not acknowledging it did many Nuclear test in Algeria's desert on the one hand (Algerian perspective) and Algeria not working with France to help deport criminal illegal migrants. I suspect the diplomatic tension between France and Algeria is the hold up.
https://en.populationdata.net/maps/africa-europe-gas-pipelines/
But in light of the North African gas network into Europe. Italy is indeed in a strategic position. Italy can sign a deal with Tunisia, Algeria and Nigeria to ship Gas into Italy via Sicily and Sardinia along with working with Libya to ship it directly into Gela in Sicily. Connecting Brindisi with Greece and linking up Turkey could provide another source. Seem to me a network from Turkey through Greece into Italy in Brindisi (Puglia) can be linked with the pipeline coming into Sicily somewhere in Calabria. Gas then can be shipped from Nigeria all the through North Africa into Italy and then back through Greece into the Balkans then well into Central Europe, etc.
So I can look at a map, look at existing infrastructure (which Italy is already significantly linked into) and see Italy's potential to be a major player in the Gas distribution process in Europe. And rather than being dictated to by the likes of Merkel when she was in charge of Germany, or Macron in France, they can negotiate the terms from a position of lets say "equal partners" or lets say strategic leverage (to be diplomatic, not a power play which has always been the method of the major EU Western European powers, Germany and France).