Natural Gas Supply in Italy: Analysis and Perspectives

The work analyses Italy’s current strategies for gas supply to guarantee the energy security of the national market and its potential capacity for diversification. In the first part, having examined the Italian situation relative to domestic production and the quantity of imported gas, the work focuses on the countries from which Italy imports natural gas through pipelines: Russia, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Libya, Norway and Holland, and LNG through LNG carriers, also analysing the reserves, production and infrastructures present there. In the second part, in light of the current situation characterized by strong instability, the prospects of diversification of natural gas supply routes in the Mediterranean context are analysed. The exploitation of natural gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean area and the development of regasifiers to accommodate LNG can make a valuable contribution to the diversification of energy supplies.