It can't be said, but the sequence of dates and events is much more than a test. The “occupation of the Sardinian sea”, the one in front of the coasts of the island of Sardinia, put in place by Algeria, goes far beyond a header by the Maghreb government, the westernmost one. The implications are marked with confidential reports by defense and economic intelligence analysts, all intent on understanding how Italy is moving in the Mediterranean energy chessboard. In this case, the scenarios are told by documents and business, all played at the doorstep, with the implicit complicity of well-identified subjects, and more generally of the Italian system, under the slap of a latent blackmail of which no one speaks explicitly, but that you can touch with your hand in every corner of the Palaces of Rome. To dictate the line, or rather to impose it, is Eni.
Profit binge
After having historically claimed to make Italy dependent on only two large gas supply fronts, Russia and Algeria, it is now attempting the policy of the hot pan, so as not to jeopardize the large binge of extra profits that it has brought a quarterly magazine of a thousand and one nights to the cashier. Together with the Americans who will sell the LNG to Europe at a high price, and therefore to Italy, Eni will be the one to earn a lot of money. The accounts of the "six-legged dog", in the period January-March 2022, that of the first quarter of the war, record a net profit of more than 3 billion euros, compared to 270 million euros in the same period of 2021. For multinationals of the State, the "golden rule" is to keep the level of energy supply under control, that is, less and less than what is needed. Just to keep the market in tension and prevent oil and gas prices from falling too low. What happened in this first period of war is emblematic: the less gas was available, the more the oil-energy companies earned.
In check
All this also explains the reason why Eni does not want to build, or even let others build, new gas supply infrastructures, despite the fact that the global strategic scenario in the West has irremediably changed. The logic is to keep everything under control, starting with governments, from those at home to those on the opposite shore of the Mediterranean, from Italy to Algeria. And just now that the issue of Defense, the military one, returns to the table of state analyzes, elements emerge that leave little room for doubt: Italy is under energy check not only by Russia, but also and above all by Algeria. In the case of the Maghreb country, the implications that emerge from the analyzes of the intelligence institutes are, however, much more delicate. In fact, not only is the supply of gas capable of alleviating dependence on the Russian gas at stake, but there is a game on which the Italian State is making "deaf ears", or rather the free "sale" to all Algeria of the international waters of the western Mediterranean, the one in front of the coasts of Sardinia. An operation that in these hours is bouncing back to the headlines if only for the strategic, military and economic implications in the changed war scenario between Russia and the West. The "snatching" of the Sardinian sea, in fact, hides secrets and complicity, many business and a thousand implications of an international nature. In all this, Sardinia will lose three times: it will not have the Galsi pipeline connecting the Maghreb and the island, it will never be able to use the gas reserves off its coast, it will find a state in front of its doorstep, Algeria. , totally linked to the Tsar of Russia. All these passages are marked by objective dates and findings. First of all, the American study we reported on yesterday. A report kept secret in the offices of the well-informed, prepared by the Geological Agency of the Government of the United States of America to monitor the economic power of states based on energy availability. An analysis plan that the stars and stripes geologists have developed by dividing the world into 8 regions and 937 geological provinces, then classified according to oil and gas potentials. Of these world energy “provinces”, 76 are defined as “priority” and 26 as “boutiques”. The purpose of the World Energy Project, the global energy project, prepared directly for the Head of the White House, did not, as is evident, have the objective of verifying the democratic level of individual countries or their reliability, but that of ascertaining how much oil and gas they had for the next 30 years. For this reason, the “total premessinian oil system of the Basin of Provence, western Mediterranean Sea” has been placed among the excellent peaks in terms of potential.
The treasure in the Sardinian sea
A perimeter that connects France, Italy and Algeria, the Balearic Islands, Corsica, and above all the island of Sardinia, literally incorporated in this sea of gas. A stretch of water of unimaginable dimensions, 300,000 square kilometers. The analysis of the American Agency for the first time has put in black and white stratospheric numbers: the "Sardo - Algero - Provenzale" basin would have a potential of 51 trillion cubic feet (1.4 trillion cubic meters) of gas , 0.42 billion barrels of oil and 2.23 million barrels of liquid natural gas. In short, one third of the current potential of all of Algeria. All this should have sparked the attention of Italy, the first to have an infinite potential of strategic energy resources in front of its shores. In reality, the only one to do nothing was Eni's homeland. The questions arise spontaneously: were everyone in Italy unaware of the American study? Were they never concerned with checking if there was gas and oil in front of the house? Or, did they know and have culpably kept silent in order to favor the energy lobbies? The sequence of events is disarming: on March 18, 2018, the President of Algeria signs a unilateral decree establishing the Exclusive Economic Zone off the Sardinian coast. The "Democratic and People's Republic of Algeria" suddenly occupies a stretch of water that extends over 370 km from its coasts, on the other side of the Mediterranean, up to the presence of Alghero, after having skirted Carloforte, Tharros and Bosa. Communication to the United Nations is immediate.
Italy is sleeping accomplice
Just seven months passed and, without Italy having yet lifted a finger to block that "Algerian invasion" in the sea of home, the international agencies issued a piece of news destined to explain many things: "Eni, Sonatrach and Total have signed two memoranda of understanding that provide for the establishment of an "exclusive" partnership for exploration in the Algerian offshore, in a practically unexplored geological province ». Claudio Descalzi, Eni's CEO, the same one who takes heads of state and government men for a walk to increase gas pressures from other states, says: "With Sonatrach and Total we will have the opportunity to explore deep waters of the Algerian offshore ». In practice, the CEO of Eni already knows everything, knows the American firm, and is perfectly aware that the Algerian offshore is that of the Exclusive Economic Zone just established by the Algerians in international waters, in direct contact with the Sardinian sea. The Italian government, however, we are in the Conte Uno government, continues to sleep. Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi formally protested at the UN on November 28, 2018, a good 8 months after the Algerian decree that established the Exclusive Economic Zone. The first official contact between the Italian and Algerian governments takes place on 2 March 2020, but the Rome delegation returns home with a modest, and useless, Committee to discuss the external perimeter of the Algerian occupation on the Sardinian sea. Nothing more will be known about the results of that committee. On June 14, 2021, the Italian parliament passes a law for the establishment of an exclusive economic zone beyond the external limit of the territorial sea. It should have been the answer to Algeria. 11 months have passed and the Draghi government has never even mentioned the resolution to be proposed to the Head of State to establish the Italian exclusive zone, to stop the Algerian invasion. Absolute silence. Indeed, in Algiers, Draghi does not say a word about the question. It is necessary to obtain the alms of a little more methane from Algeria, which in exchange, however, takes all the gas and the sea in front of Sardinia.
Russian business in Algeria
There is a counterpart that, however, cannot be said: Eni does everything in Algeria. Too bad that in May 2020, however, Sonatrach, the Algerian Eni, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Russian Lukoil for a partnership in production and exploration in the North African country. And last September, the Russian energy giant Gazprom announced that it was collaborating with Algeria. That's not all: Sonatrach has also communicated to the world that the El Assel gas field, in a joint venture with the Russian Gazprom, will start production in 2025. Last note: Algeria was one of the 35 countries that abstained in the vote of the United Nations General Assembly Against Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.
Hunting and submarines
There is a reason, which goes far beyond the agreements between Russia and Algeria on the energy front: Russia is the country that is modernizing the Algerian armed forces. Algiers, from Putin, has already ordered the first 14 Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers for ground attack, while for the naval sector Moscow is equipping its North African ally with the most modern means: two new Russian-made submarines are on the way. All to control and dominate the sea of Sardinia, the one expropriated in the name and on behalf of the extra profits of the state.
