December 1, 2025 - The project intends to connect Cyprus with Israel and in turn to continental Europe via Greece. The commission described the GSI as strategically vital for Cyprus’ energy security.

December 2, 2025 - First, the Israel–Cyprus–Greece Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), including the Hadera–Kofinou and Kofinou–Korakia links, is considered strategically important as it will electrically connect Cyprus for the first time with both the European ...

September 5, 2025 - The future of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), a project intended to link the grids of Greece, Cyprus, and potentially Israel, will be determined by its economic sustainability and will not be affected by Turkish reactions, Foreign Minister ...

September 18, 2024 - The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) is an ambitious project to link the power grids of Cyprus, Greece and the Middle East. This strategic cable could transform the region's energy security, while raising major geopolitical challenges.

5 days ago - The electrical interconnection between Greece, Cyprus, and Israel — the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) — is entering a new phase, unlocked by a pivotal French partnership. French fund Meridiam has acquired a 66% stake in the special purpose ...

September 30, 2025 - At a length of 800 miles, the planned $2 billion Great Sea Interconnector, or GSI, would be the world’s longest undersea power cable.

September 11, 2025 - The Eastern Mediterranean pipeline or simply EastMed was a planned offshore/onshore natural gas pipeline, directly connecting East Mediterranean energy resources to mainland Greece via Cyprus and Crete. The project, currently in design, would transport natural gas from the off-shore gas reserves ...

poseidon.com/en/eastmed · LOCATION · Levantine Basin gas fields to · Cyprus and Greece mainland via · Crete (EL) COMMISSIONING DATE · 12/2028 · Technical description · The ‘EastMed Pipeline’ is a new onshore and offshore pipeline, spanning approximately ·

June 10, 2026 - As of 2026, the projected completion date of the interconnector between Cyprus and Greece will be delayed beyond its original estimate of late 2029 or early 2030. The European Commission has further re-iterated its support and preference of the GSI over any alternatives proposed by Turkey to ...

June 12, 2026 - The failure of Brussels to confront the ongoing obstruction to the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project – a strategic energy project to bind Israel, Cypress, and Greece – shows the limits of moral posturing in the Middle East.

February 18, 2020 - The EastMed pipeline includes 1,300km of offshore and 600km of onshore pipeline sections. It will transport natural gas from the Levantine Basin in Israel as well as from the gas fields in Cypriot waters to Greece and Italy.

April 6, 2026 - The EastMed, an approximately 1,900-kilometer-long undersea pipeline aimed at transporting gas extracted from Israeli fields such as Leviathan and Tamar through Cyprus to Greece and then on to Italy, was formalized by an agreement signed in ...

2 weeks ago - Europe’s gas import needs are projected to increase by 100 billion cubic meters (3.5 billion cubic feet) annually by 2030.[1] In December 2017, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said a study on the EastMed Pipeline Project showed that the link is feasible, even though it presents technical challenges due to the depths involved.

January 28, 2026 - Their pipeline project consists of two parts. The gas would first flow through the EastMed pipeline from Israeli offshore gas fields via Cypriot and Greek waters to reach the Greek mainland.[1] From Greece, the Poseidon pipeline would again take the gas offshore towards the Italian coast.

June 13, 2022 - On 10 June, 2022, DNV issued confirmation of the Feasibility Statement of the Eastern Mediterranean Deepwater Pipeline (EastMed), a 2000 km long onshore and offshore natural gas conduit project meant to connect offshore gas reserves from the Levantine Basin to Greece via Cyprus, and further to southeastern European countries in conjunction with Poseidon and Greece-Bulgaria interconnection (IGB) pipelines.

1 week ago - Meridiam has acquired a majority stake in the 1GW Greece–Cyprus section of the 2GW Great Sea Interconnector project, which is expected to eventually l...

GSI delivers its program of work through multi-year country and themed research and support, as well as via discrete projects. Examples include climate change and gender research, to communications and country reform plans · The IISD Global Subsidies Initiative worked with UNDP-Viet Nam to ...

April 6, 2023 - The EastMed-Poseidon Pipeline Project is a bi-directional energy interconnector aiming to provide a direct link between the Eastern Mediterranean energy resources and the European markets through Cyprus, Greece and Italy, diversifying supply sources and routes and providing new price signals ...

October 7, 2025 - The project is no longer under active consideration due to technical challenges, high cost, and opposition from Turkey, which halted trade with Israel in 2024 to protest Israel’s war in Gaza.30 So far, Israel’s only EU gas connection is via Egyptian liquefaction capacity.

January 22, 2022 - The EastMed pipeline — a €6 billion project that was meant to ship gas from deposits offshore Israel and Egypt through a 1,250-kilometer pipeline running via Cyprus and Greece to European markets — is for all intents and purposes dead ...