Press releases

DESFA’s Results on Natural Gas Consumption in 2020 2020 was a record year for natural gas consumption in Greece: It was increased by 9.58% (MWh) compared to 2019 and by 99% compared to 2014. Record year for the LNG gasification of Revithoussa, as well, with an increase of 3.8% compared to 2019. Consistently high levels of LNG imports with 49 cargos from 8 countries. LNG also...

Maria Rita Galli, the new CEO of DESFA, during her speech at the Athens Energy Dialogues conference, on February 17th, 2021, focused on the strategic and investment priorities of DESFA, the key role of natural gas infrastructure in the energy transition, the strengthening of the role of Greece as an energy hub, as well as on new technologies towards climate neutrality. Ms. Galli also...

The Board of Directors of DESFA, the Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator, has today appointed Maria Rita Galli as the new CEO of the company. Previously Ms. Galli was Executive Vice President Business Development & Asset Management at Snam and Chairman of SENFLUGA Energy Holdings S.A., DESFA’s majority shareholder. Ms. Galli has an in-depth knowledge of the Greek energy...

DESFA donated super-freezers, necessary for the maintenance and storage of vaccines against Covid-19 to the National Healthcare System, responding to the relevant appeal of the Greek Health Ministry. The super-freezers are the essential infrastructure for the implementation of the country’s coronavirus vaccination program – a program critical to overcoming the health crisis and...

A donation of medical equipment to the Hellenic Pasteur Institute (H.P.I.), in order to make a practical contribution to the work of the Institute for the fight against Covid-19, was made by the Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator (DESFA), in the context of the Corporate Social Responsibility program that it implements and by responding to the needs created in this difficult...

DESFA was awarded the operation and maintenance services of LNGI (Liquefied Natural Gas Import), the new liquefied natural gas terminal of the Kuwaiti state company, KIPIC. The contract has a duration of minimum five years and it was given to DESFA, after the completion of the second and last phase of the relevant tender, that of technical evaluations and discussions on the...

On Friday, October 30, DESFA’s proposal for new scheduling process for unloading of LNG cargoes to the Revithoussa LNG terminal was published in the Government Gazette, following RAE’s approval earlier last week. The new annual scheduling process introduces a market-based mechanism (auctions) for the allocation of the LNG terminal’s capacity and of the dates for the unloading of LNG...

An increasing trend in the consumption of natural gas in Greece in 2020 is shown in DESFA’s data for the period January – September 2020, with half, in fact, quantities that covered the needs of the Users of the National Natural Gas Transmission System (NNGTS) during this period to come from the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal of DESFA in Revithoussa. According to data...

The CEO of DESFA, Nicla Battialana, signed today an agreement for the acquisition of a 20% stake in Gastrade SA, the company that develops the project of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Alexandroupolis, becoming thus one of the partners in the project, along with Mrs. Elmina Kopelouzou, Founding Shareholder and Chairwoman of the BoD,...

On Monday, November 02, the first auction was held for the distribution of uninterrupted natural gas transmission capacity at the new interconnection point of the National Natural Gas System (NNGS) with TAP in Nea Mesimvria. This is a historic moment both for the Greek and regional energy market, since the National Natural Gas System will be interconnected with one of the largest gas...