If you’ve been following Global Geopolitics for a while, or as recent as yesterday (see also HERE), you’re not shocked in the least bit.
CEO of the country’s largest oil company Hellenic Petroleum, Grigoris Stergioulis said that many nations, including Russia and Arab countries, want to use Greece as a hub, and “we are trying very hard to establish kind of cooperation and to gain some time that was lost in the past.”
ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik), Anna Liatsou — Greece could become a major hub for distribution of oil resources in Europe, the CEO of the country’s largest oil company Hellenic Petroleum told Sputnik Thursday.
“This is our only way through the future and we will do our best in order to establish it. Greece is the door, at least in the Southern Europe, and we are going to use it,” Grigoris Stergioulis said, answering Sputnik’s question whether Greece could become an oil hub.
Stergioulis said that many nations, including Russia and Arab countries, want to use Greece as a hub, and “we are trying very hard to establish kind of cooperation and to gain some time that was lost in the past.”
Moscow and Athens are currently in the final stages of signing a deal on Russian gas supplies through an extension of the Turkish Stream, the proposed natural gas pipeline running from Russia to Turkey via the Black Sea, to the Greek border.
Full article: Greece to Become Major European Oil Hub – Hellenic Petroleum CEO (Sputnik News)
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