Cyprus and Chevron discuss speeding up Aphrodite exploitation

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Cyprus and Chevron discuss speeding up Aphrodite exploitation

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Talks between the government and US energy giant Chevron appeared to move in a positive direction on Friday, after a meeting at the presidential palace ended on a high note over the possibility of utilising the Aphrodite field for Cyprus' local electricity production. Speaking to reporters after the meeting with...

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The keyword in the title is "discuss". It is not "implement".
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Yes, will this time be any different to previous efforts? Although the country and the intention to supply Cyprus with its own natural gas to produce electricity is different. Did you read the article in yesterday's Cyprus Sunday Mail...

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We need compressed natural gas (definitely NOT liquid natural gas) as a stopgap measure to keep the current power stations operational until we can get rid of natural gas altogether as is becoming clearly inevitable. This would be sufficient to keep the electric generation going while we slowly modernise the country's technology. It would seem that Aphrodite gas would be sufficient to keep us going with a small margin for the inevitable errors!

In my opinion – not humble –, the worst thing we could do is to think about liquid natural gas, LNG.
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