Italy Gets Less Gas From Russia Than Sought as Stockpiles Fall
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Italy imported 13 percent less natural gas from Russia than it requested as colder-than-usual weather stoked demand for the heating fuel, depleting reserves.
Snam Rete Gas SpA, Italy’s pipeline operator, received gas at a daily rate of 94.2 million cubic meters at Tarvisio on the Austria-Italy border, where Russian fuel enters the country, a spokesman for the company said in a telephone interview from San Donato Milanese. A request was made for 108.3 million, he said. The hub received 95.1 million cubic meters yesterday, up from 87.6 million on Feb. 6. Imports from Algeria have also risen, with Mazara del Vallo receiving 95.2 million cubic meters yesterday from 85 million on Feb. 2.