Snam stated in a social media post on Thursday that Italy received over 160 LNG cargoes from January to September this year.
The Italian firm said this number confirms the importance of LNG in ensuring flexibility and resilience in the Italian energy system, especially when considering the increase in the share of LNG in Italian gas supplies, which rose from 11 percent in 2021 to over 30 percent in the January-September period of this year.
Thanks to the management of the Panigaglia terminal, the FSRU-based terminals in Piombino and Ravenna, and its participation in the Adriatic LNG facility, and OLT Offshore Toscana, Snam can offer an annual regasification capacity of 28 billion cubic meters, capable of covering 45 percent of national demand, the firm noted.
Snam previously said that approximately 150 LNG cargoes arrived in Italy in 2024, covering 25 percent of gas demand and providing larger diversification as one third of the volumes came from the US, one third from Qatar, and one fourth from Algeria and the rest of the world.
In the first half of this year, Snam, with its fully consolidated assets Piombino, Panigaglia, and Ravenna, regasified 3.02 billion cubic metres of LNG, a rise of 28 percent compared to last year, representing 45 tanker loads compared to 37 in the first half of 2024.
Italy’s five terminals regasified 10 bcm of LNG, up 32 percent year-on-year, representing 109 tanker loads.
Snam stated that the increase in regasified volumes in the first half was primarily due to activities at the Piombino terminal, resulting from a higher number of LNG tanker unloadings (21 tanker loads compared to 17 in the first six months of 2024).
Additionally, Snam attributed the increase to the commissioning of the Ravenna FSRU-based terminal, which launched operations in May 2025.
Italy’s Adriatic LNG terminal, owned by VTTI and Snam with 70 percent and 30 percent ownership, respectively, sent 4.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas into the national pipeline network during January-June this year.
Adriatic LNG shut down the facility on August 1 for scheduled maintenance and to carry out plant modifications, and it gradually resumed gas supplies to the gas grid on August 31.
