Italy scouts gas supplies from US, Africa and Azerbaijan after Qatar force majeure, minister says

ROME: Italy is looking at alternative sources of natural gas, including US liquefied natural gas (LNG) and pipeline supplies from Africa and Azerbaijan, to make up for loss of deliveries from Qatar due to the conflict in the Middle East, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin told a ⁠newspaper on Friday. ⁠QatarEnergy declared force majeure this week and informed Italian utility Edison on Thursday that it would not be able to fulfil its ⁠contractual obligations concerning five liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo deliveries scheduled to arrive in early April.

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