Wärtsilä, a Finnish company with headquarters in Helsinki, specialized in the manufacture of propulsion and power generation systems for marine use and power plants, has signed a contract for the supply of a biogas plant to the Norwegian company Biokraft, a subsidiary of the Scandinavian Biogas Group, that is a major player in the global biogas market.
At the end of June, on the Autobrennero at Autoporto Sadobre (Brenner customs border motorway station), the first plant for the distribution of bioLNG for road transport was started up, an initiative born from the collaboration between Gruber Logistics, APS Fuel (Autoporto Sadobre) and Ham Italia.
In Verolanuova, in the province of Brescia, last June the Lazzari & Zucchini Company started the "Bio Industry" plant built by IES Biogas for the production of bioGNL from the treatment of by-products of the agro-livestock chain. The Green Arrow Capital investment fund participated in the investment, the first financial institution to do so, while TotalEnergies contracted the purchase of the production.
At the Sefine Shipyard in Yalova, Turkey, construction began on the LNG ferry “Aeolian” ordered last March by Caronte & Tourist Isole Minori (Caronte & Tourist shipowner group).
Avoiding methane emissions, whether leaks or authorized releases, is therefore now the priority of the entire natural gas sector. In the past this aspect has been handled only from the point of view of system security. For example, in the case of gas over pressures, dangerous for containers, whether gas pipelines or tanks, controlled releases have been authorized. It can no longer be done.