Giansanti (Eni): ‘Towards zero Russian gas imports in 2025’

Brussels – “Today, the share of Russian gas on Italian imports has dropped to 2 percent and is set to fall to zero with 2025,” said Luca Giansanti, Head of European Government Affairs at Eni, speaking at the tenth edition of the event ‘How Can We Govern Europe?’, organized by Withub with the editorial direction of Eunews and Gea, underway in Brussels at the residence of the Italian ambassador to Belgium. “Let’s start with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the strategy that the EU adopted immediately afterward, the so-called Repower Eu, which provided for the drastic reduction of dependence on Russian gas supplies,” Giansanti explained. “To this, we added the ban towards coal and oil imports.”

“On the natural gas front, it has required companies like Eni and countries like Italy to adapt quickly, and we have been able to do so very rapidly thanks to that network of alliances with supplier countries and relationships established over decades that has allowed us to leverage reliable and alternative partners, and so gas from Norway, Algeria, and Congo and many other countries has flowed in greater quantities to Italy, which has also taken advantage of a pipeline network that it has at its disposal unlike other countries. The new regassifiers will be increasingly useful, allowing  greater volumes of liquefied natural gas to arrive.”

In general, during the energy crisis, “Eni also moved as a company, and representing Italy within the framework of the EU’s decision to reduce and eliminate dependence on Russian fossil fuels. “Italy in this has been “a champion; it has completed in the shortest possible time compared to other countries and this has been done thanks to an already existing diversification of routes.”