Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Cyprus’ strategy for natural gas and deposits in its EEZ
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“to see if this (strategy) matches their strategy.”
“We selected specific companies and primarily companies located in Cyprus’ EEZ and Israel’s EEZ and we had come up with companies with know-how to help us with our strategy and others that will take the gas and take it to the markets,”
“any publications with a negative image are wrong”.
“So the primary goal was achieved. The second goal was, since infrastructure has a cost, to create an alternative, and that is liquefaction to go to markets in Europe. This may not be necessary because we have the first goal,”
“Aphrodite”
One is the growth time in 2028 which we do not agree with because the deposit has been sitting since 2011. There will be consultation, when we are ready to be able to fix it, to be closer to our own strategy,”
“To connect them to Venus you need other infrastructure, and it takes time,”
“maybe in 2027 or earlier”