Trans-Mediterranean Pipeline

During the 1980-2001 period, there were one or two source incidents and some transit incidents relating to Russian gas supplies through Ukraine, but no significant facility incidents/ There was one incident which could be labeled as terrorism in 1997 when an explosion on the Trans-Mediterranean Pipeline cut the flow of Algerian gas to Italy... 

The importance of North Africa for future European gas supply, however, goes beyond the purely numerical aspect of projected volumes. North Africa is likely to be the only supply source which will increase the volume of pipeline gas dedicated to Europe. There are not only possibilities of expanding the existing pipelines - the Enrico Mattei (Trans-Mediterranean), Pedro Duran Farrell (GME) and Green Stream lines - but also of building new ones such as the proposed Medgaz line to Spain and the Galsi line to Sardinia and Italy. 

Pipelines Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (oil Caspian to Mediterranean Sea) Druzhba (oil southeast Russia to eastern Europe) China s West to East (gas) Trans-Alaska (oil) Gasoducto del Sur (proposed gas Venezuela to Argentina) Desertec (proposed solar North Africa to Europe)... 

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