There will be no gas flows from Libya into Italy for a third straight day today after clashes between local militias at the North African country's Mellitah complex, Italian gas transport group Snam said.
Mellitah, operated by Libya's National Oil Corporation and Italy's Eni, supplies Italy with gas through the Greenstream pipeline, which ends at the Sicilian port town of Gela and at full capacity pumps at least 8 billion cubic metres a year.
"We have not been getting any gas from Libya since Saturday afternoon and also for today the expectations are of zero gas flows," a Snam spokesman said.
The disruption at the Mellitah complex is the latest to hit the energy sector in Libya, where protests have shut down oil-export terminals in recent months, and comes after January's hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant.
The daily expected supply through the Greenstream pipeline for today would have been around 17.2 million cubic metres, data from Snam showed.
Italy gets most of its gas from Algeria, Russia, and Libya - which provides between 10 and 15 percent - while some comes from Norway and the Netherlands.
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