希腊和以色列同意建造全球最长水下天然气管道

据管道新闻网1月5日消息称，到2025年，到2025年，水下管道将满足欧洲10%的天然气需求，这将有助于减少对俄罗斯天然气的需求。

希腊和以色列同意修建一条新管道，将天然气输往欧洲，尽管欧盟承诺减少使用具有破坏性的化石燃料。

预计这条世界上最长的水下管道将耗资60亿欧元（51亿英镑），到2025年将满足欧洲约10％的天然气需求。

意大利将是以色列天然气最大的单一买家，但其他几个欧洲国家也将从中受益。

上个月，欧盟推出了一系列新的绿色协议政策，承诺欧盟到2050年实现碳中和，目标是到2030年将碳排放从目前的40%削减至“至少”50%。

欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯·德莱恩（Ursula Von der Leyen）表示，该委员会希望利用价值1000亿欧元的投资，帮助欧盟各经济体支付转换使用化石燃料的费用。

去年11月，欧洲投资银行决定在2021年底停止为化石燃料项目提供资金。

EastMed管线将从以色列和塞浦路斯的天然气田经希腊到意大利，全长1900公里(1180英里)，预计每年可输送200亿立方米的天然气。

根据应对气候危机的《巴黎协定》，欧洲设定了到2030年至少削减40%温室气体排放的目标。

但欧洲的天然气需求正在上升，牛津能源研究所估计，未来3年内，欧洲的天然气需求将超过液化天然气供应。

曹海斌 摘译自 PGJ

原文如下：

Greece and Israel agree deal to build world’s longest underwater gas pipeline

With the underwater pipeline meeting 10% of Europe’s gas by 2025 will help diminish the strangle hold of natural gas from Russia.

Greece and Israel have agreed to build a new pipeline to bring natural gas to Europe, even though the EU is promising to reduce its use of damaging fossil fuels.

The new €6bn (£5.1bn) underwater pipeline, which would be the world’s longest, is forecast to meet about 10 per cent of Europe’s gas needs by 2025.

Italy will be the largest single purchaser of the Israeli gas, but several other European countries also stand to benefit.

Last month the European Union launched a new Green Deal policy package committing the EU to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, with ambitious targets to cut emissions by 2030 from the current 40 per cent target to “at least” 50 per cent.

Ursula Von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said the commission wanted to use €100bn worth of investment to help the bloc’s economies pay to switch away from fossil fuels.

The European Investment Bank decided in November to stop funding fossil fuel projects at the end of 2021.

The EastMed line, which would run for 1,900km (1,180 miles) from Israeli and Cypriot gas fields via Greece to Italy, is expected to carry up to 20 billion cubic metres of gas a year.

Under the Paris Agreement to tackle the climate crisis, Europe set a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 per cent by 2030.

But Europe’s gas demands are rising, and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies estimates that demand will outstrip liquefied natural gas supply within three years.