Winter - perhaps - safe: Snam guarantees the highest performance necessary "for the peaks of the coldest days".

Gas storage in Italy has reached 95%: this was reported by the company - one of the most important companies in the supply chain, which deals with the transport, storage and regasification of methane. 

A quantity that - he emphasizes - exceeded the EU average by "+ 5%".

Good news, however tempered by the opportunity - as the company itself acknowledges in the press release - that was offered by "nature": "

thanks to the mild climate of recent weeks which has significantly reduced domestic consumption

".

"The efforts undertaken - the company continues in a note - will be able to cope with 25% -30% of the daily demand in January". 

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Gas storage depot, Cornegliano Laudense

The balance sheet of the storage campaign


At the end of the campaign ended on 31 October, "the filling level of the storage facilities of Stogit - a wholly owned subsidiary of Snam - reached a percentage of 95.2%, for a total of

11.2 billions of cubic meters of natural gas

.

To which are added the 4.5 billion cubic meters of strategic storage ”. 


The national energy system will also be able to dispose of "a further 1.1 billion cubic meters, accumulated in the storage of other operators", continues the note.

Between April and October - the so-called injection campaign, ie filling - Snam "contributed to the filling of the sites for

1.3 billion cubic meters, to which were added 740 million cubic meters - destined for consumption for transport and storage

- while GSE has injected another 1.6 billion, also thanks to the resources made available by Arera and the Ministry of the Economy ".

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Heating

This is the methane that will be used for energy and heating in Italy to cover the coldest months of the year "

supplied to the system in the months of January, February and March 2023".


With this new tool it would be possible to "preserve some quantities of gas in the fields for the peak winter period of demand".

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Pipeline Pipes

The supply of gas from storage will take place according to the indications that "will be issued by

the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Safety

, on the basis of transparent auction mechanisms", starting from 1 November moreover - continues the company - "Stogit has activated a new counter-flow injection service, to allow operators to deliver the gas available in the fields managed by the company also in

November and December

, during the withdrawal campaign ".