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Slovakia signs deal to
bring LNG from Italy
CONTRACTS SLOVAKIA has signed a deal to bring LNG from quarter of 2023. It will fill 10% of the capacity of
Italy, which could fill 10% of its reserves. Slovakia’s gas storage facilities.
The deal between the Slovak state-owned Transit capacities were already secured by
energy supplier Slovensky plynarensky priemysl SPP and according to the CEO of SPP Richard
(SPP) and Amercian ExxonMobile was signed Prokypcak, Slovakia has now resolved its gas
during Thursday’s visit of Slovak premier Edu- capacity needs for the upcoming winter as it
ard Heger to Italy, which included a meeting with braces for the full halt of gas imports from Russia.
outgoing premier Mario Draghi. Heger also stressed that Slovakia is well con-
“Slovakia has not been wasting time during nected through pipeline infrastructure to neigh-
the last months and has been securing sufficient bouring countries, including to Poland, which
amounts of gas”, Heger was quoted as saying by brings Norwegian gas from the north, and to
Slovak media. The supplies from Italy will begin Croatia’s LNG terminal in the south.
on October 1 and will continue until the first
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