DESFA to double Azeri gas flow to Europe

The Greek earthy state grid system is afloat prepared to person and transmit twice the existent quantities from Azerbaijan to Europe, arsenic the main trunk of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is successful Greece.

Gas grid relation DESFA has completed the projects to upgrade and strengthen the Greek system, and the plenary league of the National Gas Regulatory Authority connected Thursday is expected to o.k. their certification today, paving the way to treble the capableness of TAP from 10 cardinal cubic meters of state per year to 20 bcm/year.

The program strengthens the information of supply of Greece and Europe toward the termination of Russian state flows successful 2027, arsenic well arsenic the country’s relation arsenic a transit hub successful the region. This relation has already been established by the liquefied earthy state (LNG) facilities of the Revithoussa terminal and the Alexandroupoli floating unit (FSRU) and should beryllium further strengthened with the cognition of the “Vertical Corridor” done which LNG from the two terminals will scope Ukraine.

The information DESFA has published for January-September, with LNG loads astatine Revithoussa much than doubling and exports soaring, are indicative of this dynamic transformation of the state arsenic a earthy state hub: Exports jumped to 5.06 terawatt-hours from conscionable 0.66 TWh past year.