Libyan pipeline closure not to impact Italian gas supplies - ENI.

Excerpt from report by Italian privately-owned centrist newspaper La Stampa website, on 23 February

[Report by Marco Sodano: "ENI: 'We Have Alternatives, There Will Be No Lack of Methane'"]

Ties are close and important, and consequences are significant. In the short-term, however, the chaos in Libya is not causing too much concern among the Italian firms active in the country or the firms that have Libyan funds among their stakeholders (the main ones are the ENI [Italy's National Hydrocarbon Body] in the former group, and Unicredit [Italian bank] in the latter). But looking farther into the future, there will be many issues to resolve.

For starters, no …