Last August IES BIOGAS, a company of the Snam group specialized in the design, construction, management and assistance of biogas and biomethane plants, built in Veneto a plant for the production of biomethane from livestock manure for the production of bio-LNG up to a total capacity of about 13,000 tons / year. This is the fourth plant in Italy after the two in Lombardy and one in Piedmont.
After a five-year break, LNG ship processing is returning to Fincantieri's Italian shipyards. In 2016, the company launched at the Castellamare di Stabia shipyard the first LNG-powered ferry built outside Scandinavia, destined for a Canadian shipowner. The commitment is now much greater, with the start of construction - the first sheet metal was cut on 3 September - of two cruise ships for Princess Cruises, a brand of Carnival Corporation.
Just over a month to go before the traditional event promoted and organised by Mirumir to take stock at national and international level of developments in the direct use of LNG (Bologna, 6-8 October). We are approaching the ten-year anniversary of the first conference in April 2013, but some stocktaking will already be possible. At last we will be able to talk in person, touch the technological advances, exchange ideas and information, draw future prospects, without the aseptic filter of monitors.
At the end of August, the company Medea Gas, Italgas operating company for the methanisation of the Sardinian city networks, communicated the trend of the activities, listing the municipalities already served by natural gas with small-scale deposits of LNG brought back from the liquid state to gas compressed via vaporizers.
The US ports of Galveston, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana, both of which overlook the Gulf of Mexico, have signed agreements with companies specialized in the logistics and supply of LNG for the maritime traffic of ships using this fuel.
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