The last time this happened was in 1974.
For the first time in nearly 50 years, Italy has not imported natural gas from the Russian Federation for a week .
This is evidenced by the data of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI).
It is noted that this has not happened since 1974.
“Goodbye, Moscow. Over the past seven days, Italy has imported zero cubic meters of gas from Gazprom, and therefore from Russia. This has not happened since 1974. A historic day,” said ISPI analyst Matteo Villa.
The situation with Russian gas
On August 31, Gazprom suspended gas supplies to Europe via Nord Stream 1. The company said that oil leaks were found on parts of the pipeline compressor and the equipment had to be shut down until the leak was fixed.
On September 2, the Russian gas company Gazprom announced a complete halt to the pumping of gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for an indefinite period.
Against the backdrop of the shutdown of the Russian Nord Stream gas pipeline, the spot price of gas in Europe on the morning of September 5 jumped by 30% to almost $2,900 per thousand cubic meters.
On September 14, 2022, the EU responded to Putin’s gas blackmail .
On September 26, information appeared about gas leaks at Nord Stream . On September 27, it became known about explosions in the area of the leak.
On September 28, 2022, the EU countries demanded to immediately limit the price of gas.
On October 1, it became known that Gazprom had stopped gas supplies to Italy, and already on October 5, the company officially recognized the fall in demand for gas .
October 17 The European Commission has found a new way to limit the price of gas .
Nice.
Not only Italy. Most European countries have vastly reduced or have completely gone without mafia gas as of this year.