(Tiper Stock Exchange) – The Golar Tundra regasification vessel snam came in last night in the port of Piombino (Livorno), towed by four tugboats, who drove her to the mooring at the North dock, after a four-hour haul in the Gulf of Follonica. The ship, which is used for the transformation of LNG, has arrived to Italy from Singapore after 26 days of sailing through the Suez Canal.
“The fact of be able to delete at least in part this dependence on gas arriving from Russia is significant, it then allows us to lower costs on the market”, underlined the President of the Tuscany region, Eugene Giani, present at the ship’s arrival in Piombino. And then he underlined the importance of this ship for national energy policy and for the citizens of Piombino, who in recent months had expressed strong disagreement with the choice of its destination, also relaunching the compensation proposal for Piombinothe second Italian iron and steel pole.
The ship is about 300 meters long and was used to manage the docking maneuver a night operationtaking advantage of it ferry traffic stop. The Golar Tundra will not go into operation immediately, but at the moment it has great symbolic value, because will guarantee to Italy a certain independence from the import of gas from the East. The operation is expected for the month of Maywhen the connections to the land pipeline for distribution are completed from the Snam construction sites.
The regasification ship in Piombino together with that of Ravenna it will loosen Italy’s dependence from methane gas imports through land pipelines, which arrive from Russia and Azerbaijan and which suffer from geopolitical tensions at regular intervals. The possibility of regasifying LNG, on the other hand, will make it possible diversify gas suppliers from other continents such as Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania.
The ship docked in Piombino can reach one capacity to transform LNG into gaseous state gas for a total of 5 billion cubic meters a year and, together with the ship that will dock at Ravenna can be negotiated 13 billion of cubic meters per year, guaranteeing a marked diversification of Italy’s gas supply.