Snam SpA (SRG.MI), Italy's biggest natural gas grid and storage company by volume, Friday said gas imports from Algeria have returned to normal levels.
Snam SpA (SRG.MI),
Italy
's
biggest natural gas grid and storage company by volume, Friday said gas imports
from
Algeria
have
returned to normal levels.
Current import levels are about 75 million cubic meters a day, said a Snam
spokesman. "Levels returned to normality overnight," he added.
Thursday,
Algeria
's gas
imports to
Italy
dropped by more than 13%.
Italy
imports around 90% of its gas needs, and the majority of these come from
Algeria
and
Russia
.
Early Wednesday, militants attacked the In Amenas gas facility, which is
operated in a joint venture between BP PLC (BP), Statoil ASA (STO) and Algerian
state-owned energy company Sonatrach. The militant group al Qaeda in the
Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, claimed responsibility for the attack, and a spokesman
for the group said they took 41 hostages.
In Amenas is located in the east of the country, around 1,300 kilometers from
the capital
Algiers
and
near the border with
Libya
.
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