Papastavrou meets U.S. Energy Secretary in New York

Environment and Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou met on Tuesday successful New York with U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright.

According to the Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy, their treatment focused connected strategical issues aimed astatine enhancing Greece-U.S. vigor cooperation, including the cognition of the Vertical Gas Corridor and Greece’s strategical precedence to decouple from Russian gas. Both ministers agreed to see these topics connected the docket of the Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) meeting, scheduled to instrumentality spot successful Athens connected November 6-7, with the information of the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
Papastavrou highlighted to the U.S. Secretary that done the LNG introduction points astatine Revythoussa and Alexandroupolis (FSRU), which are connected to the Greece-Bulgaria Interconnector and the Vertical Corridor, Greece is strengthening determination vigor security. “In this way, we are substantially contributing to the translation and improvement of the region. The infrastructure directs American LNG not lone to Southeast Europe, but arsenic acold arsenic Moldova and Ukraine, providing stableness and prospects successful an unstable planetary environment,” helium underlined.
Wright and Papastavrou besides discussed the improvement of Greece’s hydrocarbon assemblage and the adjacent steps starring to the awarding of hydrocarbon exploration rights successful offshore blocks successful Greece to the Chevron-Helleniq Energy consortium. They agreed connected the request to accelerate and fortify the 3+1 initiative, with artificial quality issues added to its agenda.
The gathering took spot connected the sidelines of the Atlantic Council league successful New York, which focused connected vigor information successful Central and Eastern Europe.

source ANA-MPA