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EastMed pipeline to be completed by 2025

comment ellinas eastmed never was viable and technically it stretched the limits
The proposed route of the EastMed pipeline

The EastMed pipeline will be fully completed by 2025, ENI Chief Operating Officer Guido Brusco said on Tuesday during an event in Milan, Italy.

The EastMed is a subsea pipeline designed to supply gas to Europe from the east Mediterranean via Israel, Greece and Cyprus. The project – worth €6 billion – has been in planning for several years.

The three involved countries signed the deal to build the pipeline in January 2020.

They aim to reach a final investment decision by 2022, and have the pipeline completed by 2025 to help Europe diversify its energy resources.

In early April this year the European Parliament voted to keep the pipeline a Project of Common Interest so that it remained eligible for EU funding. This was despite the project being gas-based.

Days later, during a visit to Cyprus, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland poured cold water on the project, calling it expensive and unviable.

Nuland stated: “The idea there is to build a very long pipeline in very deep water over some ten years and we believe that it is too expensive, not economically viable and will take too long.”

The United States was seeking more short-term alternatives to ending Europe’s dependence on Russian resources, she added.

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