Italy could cope without Russian gas - intelligence

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 28 - The annual report by Italy's intelligence services to parliament said that the nation could cope if gas supplies from Russia were suddenly cut off.
    The report said Italy's structural, high-level reliance on gas imports was a critical element for the security of national supplies.
    But it also noted that there is a "broad and diversified importation capacity and storage infrastructure capable of compensating the seasonal nature of demand as well as eventual problems in the functioning of a gas pipeline or a regasification terminal".
    It said the system was able to satisfy very high levels of demand "even in the case of the interruption of the main importation infrastructure, that is the pipeline that transports gas from Russia to the entry point at Tarvisio and, in 2021, carried 38% of national demand". (ANSA).