At Rome ‘Club Med’ summit, Greece gets a line on TAP gas to Italy - NEW EUROPE

JANUARY 12, 2018, 18:49 
Kostis Geropoulos

But East Med exports from Cyprus, Israel still pipe dream for now

As heads of state and government of Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain, or so-called “Club Med,’ convened in Rome on January 10 for the fourth Summit of the Southern European Union countries, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades reportedly discussed energy issues with French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni. Currently, Italian energy major ENI and France’s Total are drilling for natural gas in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Also in Rome, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Gentiloni reportedly discussed energy cooperation. Greece and Italy are cooperating to bring Caspian gas to Europe via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.

Connecting with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) at the Greek-Turkish border, TAP will cross Northern Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea before coming ashore in Southern Italy to connect to the Italian natural gas network.

Russia's Rosneft says eyes joint oil supplies to Egypt with Italy's Eni - ZAWYA / REUTERS

SOCHI, Russia, May 17 (Reuters)

Reporting by Olesya Astakhova in Moscow and Denis Pinchuk in Sochi; writing by Vladimir Soldatkin; editing by Jack Stubbs

Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft and Italian energy company Eni have signed an agreement to broaden cooperation, including in possible joint oil product supplies to Egypt, Rosneft said on Wednesday.

The deal was signed as part of Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni's visit to Russia, during which he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

ENI chief meets Al-Sisi as tensions ease - NATURAL GAS WORLD

Rosneft and BP have an add'l 5% option each on Shorouk

January 05th, 20179:15am

Mark Smedley

Eni said late January 4 that its CEO Claudio Descalzi met the president of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, earlier that day in Cairo.

Descalzi reviewed the ongoing development of the giant Zohr gasfield with the president, noting that the ultra-fast track project is progressing as expected, still with “production start-up confirmed by end of 2017.” The Eni CEO also said that the Nooros field will produce some 25mn m³/d (882mn ft³/d, or 172,000 barrels of oil equivalent/day) by the end of this month, just 15 months after start-up.

Eni agreed late 2016 to farm out potentially up to 50% of Zohr to Rosneft and BP. Each has an option for another 5% on top of their 30% and 10% holdings respectively.

Gentiloni says energy can bring order back to Mediterranean - ANSA MED

Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni (R) and Minister of Economic
Development Carlo Calenda (L) at the opening of the UfM
Ministerial Conference on Energy in Rome

01 DECEMBER, 16:33

ROME - Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni opened the Union for the Mediterreanean (UfM) Ministerial Conference on Energy Thursday, and said that energy can help the region develop and find order.

"The awareness of the crises of the Mediterranean is evident, but there's also the chance to seize the opportunities for development, and energy is one of the greatest tools for weaving a story that brings an ordering principle back to our region," Gentiloni said.

He mentioned some of the current crises facing the Mediterranean area: "the particularly dramatic crisis in Syria, the terrorist threat, the migrant influxes that still aren't under control even if some in Europe perceive the opposite, following the March agreement with Turkey".

Cyprus working with Italy over energy - CYPRUS MAIL

Ioannis Kasoulides, FM, Cyprus (left), Paolo Gentiloni, FM, Italy

SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2016

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Monday that critical elements of the Cyprus negotiations had not yet advanced to such a point “where we can see a light at the end of the tunnel”.

Kasoulides was speaking after meeting with his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni in Nicosia where they discussed the Cyprus issue, energy, Brexit, terrorism, migration and Turkey-EU relations.

Asked if a solution to the Cyprus problem was possible within 2016, Kasoulides expressed the hope that it could be.

“It is not certain, because essential issues like the one of the question of the guarantees has not yet advanced to such a point, where we can see light at the end of the tunnel,” he said.

Italy's top diplomat makes surprise Libya visit - NATURAL GAS EUROPE

Libyan PM Fayez Sarraj 

April 13th, 2016

Italy’s foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni made a surprise visit to Tripoli on April 12 to meet Libyan prime minister Fayez Sarraj, becoming the first top western official to visit the Libyan capital since a new government was installed there two weeks ago.

“I am delighted to be in Tripoli [to provide] Italy's emergency aid and to support Sarraj's Government of National Accord,” wrote Gentiloni on Twitter.

His ministry later added that Gentiloni said he went to offer Libya Italy's political, humanitarian and economic support, and to express Italy and the international community's readiness to cooperate and contribute in the fight against terrorism.