Snam announced on Tuesday via a social media post the launch of its new small-scale LNG truck loading service.
The service provides for the loading of cryogenic tankers at the Panigaglia terminal in order to make LNG available nationally and internationally as fuel for maritime use, heavy automotive use, the railway sector, and for users not connected to the national grid, according to Snam.
Snam stated that the trucks will reach the Paninglia terminal on board Greenwave, Italy’s first full-electric Ro-Ro ferry, thereby minimizing the impact on the area’s busy provincial roads.
The service is the second operational truckloading point on the Italian peninsula, Snam noted.
When fully operational, Snam will be able to deliver up to 200 ktpa of LNG via the new service, and, in the future, also bio-LNG.
The Panigaglia LNG terminal is Italy’s oldest regasification plant.
It has two 50,000-cbm LNG storage tanks and a regasification capacity of 3.5 bcm per year.
Snam holds significant stakes in all the regulated LNG regasification terminals currently operating in Italy, including the Adriatic LNG terminal and the OLT FSRU Toscana terminal.
In April, Snam launched commercial operations at its FSRU-based LNG import facility in Italy’s Ravenna.
The 2015-built 170,000-cbm FSRU BW Singapore is moored 8.5 kilometres offshore Ravenna.
Such as the 170,000-cbm FSRU Italis LNG, previously known as Golar Tundra, which operates in Piombino, BW Singapore has an annual regasification capacity of 5 billion cubic meters.
With this unit, Italy’s total regasification capacity rose to 28 billion cubic meters.
