Greenstream pipeline

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Greenstream pipeline, a part of the Western Libya Gas Project, is a 520 kilometers long natural gas submarine pipeline from Mellitah in Libya to Gela, in Sicily, Italy. It includes also the Mellitah Compressor Station and the Gela Reception Terminal.

The idea of natural gas from Libya to Italy originating from the 1970s. Feasibility studies were carried out in the 1980s and 1990s. The pipeline has constructed by Italian energy companies Eni in partnership with National Oil Corporation (NOC). Construction of the pipeline started in 2003 and the pipeline was inaugurated on 7 October 2004. The diameter of Greenstream pipeline is 32 inches and it will reach to annual capacity of 8 bcm of natural gas at the end of 2006. The total costs of pipeline are 6.6 billion USD.

The Greenstream pipeline is supplied from the Bahr Essalam offshore field, Bouri Field and Wafa field near Algerian border, 530 kilometers from Mellitah.