Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Italian energy company Eni, is confident that Italy will need at least two more years to completely reject Russian gas supplies. His words were reflected in the newspaper La Stampa.
“Currently, the replacement of Russian gas is partial, it will take two years to replace it completely,” he said.
He added that at the moment, Italy has replaced 30 of the 40 billion cubic meters. m.Descalzi noted that this process is complex because domestic production has not been promoted in the last eight years and therefore the country has lost its own gas production.
According to Descalzi, the rapid exchange of Russian gas was made possible by Italy’s historic ties to Egypt, Angola, Algeria, the Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Libya, where the company maintains its presence. for the local market.”
He is also in his interview declarationBy the end of this year, the global energy market will most likely not experience any new serious “catastrophes”.