据3月12日Neftegaz.RU消息：以色列能源专家Yuval Steinitz在接受采访时表示，雄心勃勃的耗资60亿欧元的EastMed海底管道将在未来5年内建成并准备就绪。
EastMed管道将使以色列和塞浦路斯能够直接向希腊和意大利出口天然气，并从希腊和意大利向巴尔干半岛和中欧出口天然气。
2017年，四个国家与欧盟能源专员在特拉维夫签署了一份谅解备忘录。
Y.Steinitz称，我们在以色列有大量过剩的天然气。在错失了多年的良机后，以色列、塞浦路斯和希腊决定联合起来，帮助彼此经济发展。
希腊-意大利天然气合资企业IGI Poseidon于3月9日表示，该公司已与以色列天然气管道公司签署协议，合作建设将以色列连接至地中海东部的EastMed天然气管道的设施。
IGI Poseidon是希腊国有天然气公司DEPA与意大利爱迪生公司的合资企业，它表示，与以色列公司达成的协议更新了2019年的谅解备忘录，旨在将Eastmed项目连接到以色列输电系统，并促进东地中海通过塞浦路斯向意大利和欧洲的天然气流动。
国有的以色列天然气管道公司表示，这条线路将使天然气从以色列所有的天然气田流出。
希腊、塞浦路斯和以色列计划在2022年前就EastMed项目达成最终投资决定，并在2025年前完成60亿欧元的管道工程。
冯娟 摘译自 Neftegaz.RU
原文如下：
EastMed gas pipeline can be ready in 2025
The ambitious €6 billion EastMed undersea pipeline could be built and ready within the next 5 years, Israeli Energy Yuval Steinitz told the Cyprus news agency in an interview.
The EastMed pipeline will enable Israel and Cyprus to export natural gas directly to Greece and Italy, and from Greece and Italy to the Balkans and Central Europe
An MoU was signed in Tel Aviv in 2017 between 4 countries together with the EU Energy Commissioner.
Y.Steinitz said:
In Israel, we have a huge surplus of gas
We have enough to justify not one EastMed pipeline, but I think together with Cyprus, we can justify even 2 or 3 such pipelines
Finally, after many years of missed opportunities, Israel, Cyprus, and Greece decided to combine forces together to help each other’s economic development
Greek-Italian gas joint venture IGI Poseidon said on March 9, that it had signed an agreement with the Israel Natural Gas Lines to cooperate on building facilities to connect Israel to the EastMed gas pipeline in the eastern Mediterranean.
IGI Poseidon, a joint venture between Greece’s state-owned gas utility DEPA and Italy’s Edison, said the agreement with the Israeli company, which updates a 2019 MoU, aims to connect the Eastmed project to the Israeli transmission system and facilitate gas flows from the eastern Mediterranean to Italy and Europe, via Cyprus.
State-owned Israel Natural Gas Lines said the connection will allow gas to flow from all the Israeli gas fields.
Greece, Cyprus, and Israel aim to reach a final investment decision on the EastMed project by 2022 and have the €6 billion pipeline completed by 2025
