据管道&天然气杂志网6月27日报道，希腊能源监管机构周一表示，希腊一直在与意大利谈判，以确定是否可以在邻国意大利储存天然气，以便在大国天然气供应中断的情况下确保供应。

欧盟国家和议员们上个月就一项法律达成协议，在冬季到来之前加满天然气储备，这是他们建立供应缓冲的努力的一部分。

希腊没有天然气储存设施，需要在其他国家储存足够的天然气，以满足其年度使用量的15%。去年，希腊的年度使用量约为70亿立方米。

希腊能源监管机构负责人Athanasios Dagoumas告诉记者，我们一直在研究可以储存的量，以及什么样的技术可以使用。

Dagoumas称，雅典方面将敲定提案，然后将其提交给欧盟委员会。

希腊已表示，如果大国削减供应，将加大液化天然气（LNG）的采购，使用备用的燃煤发电能力，并将四家燃气发电厂改为柴油发电厂。

希腊目前在雅典附近有一个设施，可以储存22.5万立方米的液化天然气并进行再气化。

天然气运营商DESFA一位官员告诉路透社称，该公司将租赁一个浮动存储设施，预计下个月将固定在液化天然气设施附近，将其存储容量增加13万立方米。

根据政府提交议会的一项法案，DESFA将租赁该设施长达12个月，并可选择将其延长6个月。

郝芬 译自 管道&天然气杂志网

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Greece Looking to Secure Deal with Italy for Gas Storage

Greece has been in talks with Italy to see whether it can store gas in the neighboring country as part of efforts to secure supplies if the big producer flows are disrupted, Greece's energy regulator said on Monday.

European Union countries and lawmakers last month clinched a deal on a law to fill gas stores ahead of winter as part of their efforts to build a supply buffer.

Greece has no gas storage facilities and it would need to store enough gas in other states to cover 15% of its annual use, which came in at about 7 billion cubic meters last year.

"We have been examining what quantity can be stored and what can be useable technically," the head of Greece's energy regulator Athanasios Dagoumas told reporters.

Athens was close to finalizing its proposal before presenting it to the European Commission, Dagoumas said.

Greece has said it will ramp up purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG), use spare coal-fired generation capacity and switch four gas-fired power plants to diesel in case the big producer cuts supplies.

Greece has currently one facility off Athens which can store 225,000 cubic meters of LNG and regasify it.

Its gas operator DESFA will lease a floating storage unit which is expected to anchor close to the LNG facility next month to boost its storage capacity by 130,000 cubic meters, a DESFA official told Reuters.

Under a bill submitted to parliament by the government, DESFA will lease the unit for up to 12 months with an option to extend it by six months.