Algerian gas supplies to Italy to keep growing - Draghi

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 18 - After significant increases in gas supplies to Italy in recent months following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Rome's partnership with the North African country is set to grow further as it seeks to end its reliance on Moscow for energy, Premier Mario Draghi said during a visit to Algiers on Monday.
    Draghi said that Monday's Italian-Algerian intergovernmental summit with Algerian President Abdelmadijd Tebboune and minsters from both counties "confirms our privileged partnership relationship in the energy sector.
    "In recent months Algeria has become our country's top gas supplier," he said.
    Draghi added that the recent announcement for the supply of an additional four billion cubic metres of gas marked an "acceleration" with respect to what had previously been agreed and was a foretaste of "even more significant supplies in the coming years".
    He said the partnership with Algeria would involve the development of renewable sources of energy, especially green hydrogen, solar, wind and geothermal power. (ANSA).