Subject: Re: Italians buying more US nat gas...
Dope1: ...so they don't have to get it from Russia. For those of you complaining about the 50 days thing, it's to give time for other deals - like this - to get cut.

Venture Global (VG.N), will supply 2 million metric tons a year of liquefied natural gas to Italian state-controlled energy group Eni...

Quick Google search: Italy uses roughly 60.2 million metric tons of LNG per year.