US backs EastMed Europe pipeline gas supply - The US has given its help toward the EastMed pipeline project that is required to convey flammable gas from seaward Israel through Greece and Cyprus to the more extensive European market.

"We will keep on working with Israel, Greece and other invested individuals to guarantee that the framework will be created," US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said during a visit to Greece on Thursday, as cited by Reuters.

The arranged EastMed pipeline, for which a last speculation choice is normal in 2022, is required to convey around 10 billion cubic meters of flammable gas to the European Union (EU) through Greece and Italy. The EU backs the venture as a way to enhance its flammable gas imports from Russia. The EastMed project is required to meet some 10-15 percent of the EU's projected petroleum gas needs.

"Greece and its neighbors are redrawing the energy guide of southeastern Europe through an assortment of significant undertakings like the as of late finished TAP and gaining ground on renewables, e-portability, and wind power," Secretary Brouillette tweeted from Athens today.

We are focused on supporting undertakings like TAP, Alexandroupoli FSRU, Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB), and Greece's part in East Med Gas Forum, Secretary Brouillette added.

TAP, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, another course of enhancement from Russian gas, begun business activities a month ago.

For the EastMed pipeline project, Israel, Greece, and Cyprus marked early this year a consent to construct the framework, focusing on a last speculation choice in 2022 and for pipeline culmination by 2025.

US backs EastMed Europe pipeline gas supply

A year ago, after the US-Greece key discourse, the United States and Greece said in a joint assertion:

"The Greek and US governments recognized the capability of the proposed EastMed gas pipeline to add to the energy security and broadening of fuel sources and courses in the Eastern Mediterranean."

"Greece and the United States recognized that the revelation and future abuse of huge hydrocarbon fields in the Eastern Mediterranean are of indispensable significance for the steadiness of the area and can effectively add to the EU's energy expansion system," Greece and the US said in October 2019.

US backs EastMed Europe pipeline gas supply

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