Algeria – Sardinia – Italy gas pipeline
The Algeria-Sardinia-Italy gas pipeline ( Italian : G asdotto Al geria S ardegna I talia , GALSI for short ) was a planned natural gas pipeline through the Mediterranean Sea , starting in Algeria via Sardinia to the Italian mainland. It was to become the deepest pipeline in the world. The project is currently not being pursued any further, the website of the operating company has not been updated since 2011.
The pipeline should be 851 kilometers long, which is divided into:
- 288 kilometers underwater from Algeria to Sardinia
- 285 kilometers for the section on the island of Sardinia
- 278 kilometers underwater from Sardinia to Tuscany on the Italian mainland.
In 2007, completion was scheduled for 2012, but work has been suspended. A press conference was held in May 2015 at which Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said his country was "ready to restart the project" and Italian company Edison announced that completion was "scheduled for 2018 [obsolete] " . Nothing has been reported about the project since then.
In 2009, while surveying the pipeline at a depth of 1000 meters, the French battleship Danton was found 35 kilometers southwest of Sardinia , which was sunk in the First World War and torpedoed by a German submarine on March 18, 1917 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wreck at a depth of a thousand meters ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. news.orf.at 2009
- ^ GALSI website (Italian), accessed January 5, 2017
- ↑ a b Algeria ready for pipeline to Italy top-energy-news May 28, 2015
- ↑ Galsi, Snam Rete Sign MOU for Algeria-Italy Pipeline www.downstreamtoday.com 2007 (English)
- ↑ Danton wreck found in deep water BBC 2009 (English)
