2024-01-29 20:04:12
ROME – The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad, Ahmed Attaf insisted, Monday during the work of the Italy-Africa Summit in Rome, on Algeria’s efforts aimed at realizing tangible partnerships to strengthen the energy security and transition in Africa and the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Speaking during his participation in the first debate session on energy security, Mr. Attaf said that “Algeria, which reiterates its commitments to contribute as a reliable partner in strengthening security and transition energy in Africa and the Euro-Mediterranean region, suggests the realization of tangible partnerships around three axes.
The aim is, first of all, to provide support for efforts to build a trans-Saharan gas pipeline (Nigeria-Niger-Algeria), which will make it possible to transport more than 25 billion m3 of natural gas per year to Europe.
This gas pipeline will “strengthen Italy’s position as an energy hub and platform for promoting European energy security, in addition to strengthening economic and social development in the Sahelo-Saharan and Euro-Mediterranean region, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs who is participating in the Summit as representative of the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
The second axis includes efforts aimed at the development of large infrastructures for the connection of the national electricity network to neighboring African and Mediterranean countries, continues Mr. Attaf, recalling that Algeria, which produces a surplus of 10,000 MW of electricity/day, aspired to boost its production capacity with 15,000 MW of green electricity by 2030.
The third and final axis, explains Mr. Attaf, concerns support for the energy transition process in Algeria, particularly with regard to the development of green hydrogen production as well as the participation of Algeria as a “main actor” in structuring European projects, led by the SoutH2 Corridor.
“Adhering to the energy transition process does not mean giving up on natural gas which remains, from our point of view, one of the environmentally friendly solutions, but also one of the most important and least expensive,” maintained M .Attaf.
Therefore, Algeria will work, during the 7th forum of heads of state of gas exporting countries (GECF) scheduled for early next March in Algiers, to the implementation of qualitative conclusions capable of supporting the natural gas industry in the world, in response to the aspirations and priorities of producers and consumers of this energy, said Mr. Attaf.
Concerning the Afro-Italian partnership and cooperation plan, the minister underlined the importance of placing the consecration of energy security “in its global sense” at the heart of this plan, named after the founder of the Italian company “Eni “, Enrico Mattei, “eloquent symbol of the historic and deep friendship between Algeria and Italy”.
This plan, he added, must adequately address the challenges facing African countries in this context, including in particular strengthening the capacities of African hydrocarbon-producing countries, covering the energy needs of populations. of the continent, and the mastery and control of the oil and petrochemical industries.
It is also the challenge of modernizing infrastructure for the production and transport of hydrocarbons and other energy resources, and securing them against the risks of terrorism and organized crime, in addition to the energy transition which is become an urgent requirement for all humanity.
In this perspective, Algeria “underlines the need, even the imperative, to mobilize the tools and means of implementation, including financing, technological transfer, capacity building and technical assistance, within the framework of an approach aimed at establishing a sustainable, real and effective energy partnership”, concluded Mr. Attaf.
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