ITGI ready to deliver Russian gas to EU market

The ITGI consortium (Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy) project is willing to import Russian gas to the European markets after being excluded from the list of candidates for delivering Azerbaijani gas to Europe, IGI Poseidon CEO and head of international gas infrastructures in the Italian energy company, Edison Elio Ruggeri, said in interview with Reuters.

Ruggeri said that the consortium "is open to accept sources of gas from any producing country," including Russia and the east Mediterranean Sea, which holds significant unexploited reserves in Israeli and Cypriot waters.

ITGI is one of the proposed projects within the Southern Gas Corridor, which involves gas supplies from the Caspian region and the Middle East to the EU countries.