The Ocean Conference, Maghrebi gas and the ″invisible Portugal″!
Next week will not have the top of the national agenda the Oceans Conference-2022, under the auspices of the United Nations, in collaboration with the governments of Portugal and Kenya. Lisbon will be a “sea of international interests” between June 27th and July 1st. Two previous contextualizing points of our interests, before going to a third, summary of the analysis.
Firstly, the fact that this new majority government has added the sea to the Ministry of Economy, in addition to having chosen as a minister who “breathes sea and energy”. It remains for him to demonstrate that he “knows about pruning”. The Ministry Corrects this Basic Project, as it is important from our Continental Project, as it is the model of all the Starter Extension Classrooms, and in Minho do Minho to all the Starter Extension Classrooms”. to an adult contestant of any trivia television contest how many islands the Azores Archipelago has and their names and they will see the state in which a supposed national priority is found.
The third point/interest that I want to develop, stems from the current “cold peace” between Morocco and Algeria, which involves Spain and, by extension, Portugal, dependent on Algerian gas. Algeria has already increased its supply to Italy (PI) by 25%, to the Iberian Peninsula, and has shifted from the fluctuation to a look at the gross price and started to look at Nigeria, completion of the trans-Saharan gas pipeline, and China intends for reflection, in the infamous IP Now this leads us to have to approach Sines as the nation’s “quasi-moral reserve”, whenever alarms sound in our consciences, in the same way they have sounded in Ukraine.
We spoke with the Strategic Development Cloud (Sines port and investment terminal) which since 1978 has carried it on its shoulders like an “elephant”! He confirmed that it has the capacity and is prepared to guarantee the autonomy structure of Portugal at war and also to help Spain, in case Algeria decides to close the guarantee. How much do these deep water tanks make a port where empty ships will deliver tanks to Europe in gas, large for the war (new tanks that make investments on land, from international ships), for smaller ones that can later dock in a Europe of “shallow waters” “, will only fill 1% or 2% of its needs. For now, there is a need for a minimum investment of 15 million euros (recent figure from REN), to leverage this transfer process. Then, according to Ribeiro da Silva, “the sky is the limit”, the government’s policy options, also presenting a cheaper solution. “I need to take the focus off Sines and value the areas of Leiria, Aveiro and Pombal/Carriço, whose geology offers us salgema mines that will allow for an extraordinary and safe storage, with a cost comparable to the construction of new reservoirs in Sines from one to ten! “
All contracted from the options of this future “invisible Portugal”, from the Continental Shelf to the salt mines. It’s a national imperative puts them on the map!
Political scientist / Arabist www.maghreb-machrek.pt
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