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12 OTTOBRE 2022
10.00 – 11.30
Saturno Conference Room
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Strategic session promoted by BFWE
NEW EMERGENCIES: SECURING WATER AND ENERGY SUPPLIES IN AN EVER-CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT
The opening initiative of the events promoted by BFWE will focus on what currently appears to be the most challenging issue that engages the entire international community: how to ensure the continuity and security of water and energy supplies.
The topic will be tackled by initiating a discussion in which the protagonists of the public and private national and international organisations that, in various capacities, play a leading role in their sphere of operation will be able to explain how this challenge can be faced and overcome from the perspective of the ecological transition and the fundamental drivers that characterise it and on which BFWE is particularly focused: innovation and research, digitalisation and sustainability.
11.30 – 13.00
Saturno Conference Room
LNG BETWEEN PRICE CRISES AND VOLUME
The events of recent months have made clear the importance of liquefied natural gas as a reliable and flexible transitional energy source. The prospects of LNG supply and demand for all large and small-scale uses now require high levels of expertise. Comparison of experts and companies.
14.00 – 15.45
Saturno Conference Room
ITALY LNG HUB, A DREAM COMING BACK?
Adequacy of infrastructure and possible projects to be analysed and proposed. From emergency to new stability. Potential of the large, medium and small national LNG industry from regasification to end uses.
13 OTTOBRE 2022
11.30 – 13.00
Plutone Conference Room
LNG AS A TOOL FOR DECARBONISATION AND THE PROSPECTS OF NEW GASES
Promoted by Assocostieri and Assopetroli Assoenergia
The current geopolitical situation has put even more pressure on traditional supply sources. LNG is emerging as a key energy carrier in the strategy of diversification and transformation of energy systems. Intensified investment in the development of the LNG supply chain and growing consumption is consolidating its use in maritime transport, heavy road transport and, progressively, in industries and isolated networks. The rapid development in the production of Bio-GNL and new gases can ensure a transition towards the goal of zero greenhouse gas emissions (carbon-neutral economy) and, ultimately, the hydrogen era. Current scenarios and future prospects, the role of logistics and new technologies for decarbonisation and the promotion of increasingly efficient systems will be discussed during the conference. The associations Assocostieri, Assopetroli, some industry players and the Ministry of Ecological Transition will provide their views.
14.00 – 15.45
Saturno Conference Room
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP, DESPITE EVERYTHING
In cooperation with Assogasliquidi-Federchimica
The challenges facing the LNG sector in this particular economic and energy security climate are many and complex. Since 2013, our country has built an important value chain in the use of LNG in the trucking, off-grid and shipping sectors, with a major focus also on the growth of bio-LNG, so much so that it has become the European leader in terms of the spread of distribution outlets.
The conference aims to analyse not only the risks for the sector in the light of the current international crisis situation, but also and above all the new opportunities that may arise, also in view of the growing attention that large distribution chains and shipping companies are placing on LNG as a product capable of supporting the achievement of environmental sustainability targets.
14 OTTOBRE 2022
11.00 – 13.00
Saturno Conference Room
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THE EURO-MED ENERGY CONTEXT
New interconnections for natural gas and hydrogen
Promoted by WEC ITALIA and OME
The Mediterranean Basin presents great energy opportunities that can help build a strategic response to the recent trends of international relations. The Mediterranean has unexpressed potential both with reference to traditional energies, starting with natural gas, LNG and bio LNG, to more innovative sources and technologies such as solutions for the production / use of hydrogen.
In a context where there are many challenges to deal with, LNG, Bio LNG and hydrogen have therefore a huge potential: the contribution to the diversification and security of energy supply together with their environmental benefits, make these energy vectors two of the main players of the ecological transition underway in the Euro Med area. However, the achievement of a large-scale diffusion will depend on how the potential expressed by the supply chains will be developed, starting from production, passing through transport and storage, up to final uses. In this context, energy cooperation will remain a priority, starting from the ever-increasing development of the energy interconnections between the European and North African shores, as well as policies and regulation that must accompany the inclusion in energy mixes of countries of the Mediterranean Basin of these energy carriers and of increasingly sustainable production / consumption models.
Starting from this context WEC Italy – Italian National Committee of the World Energy Council and OME - Observatoire Méditerranéen de l'Energie organize a debate on the role of LNG and hydrogen in the context of Euro MED energy Transition, to deepen with representatives of the WEC National Committees of the Mediterranean, OME Members, and national and international stakeholders, the potential and the contribution that these two energy vectors, in a context of a greater Mediterranean energy cooperation, can give to the increasingly challenging Energy Trilemma: balancing the safety, competitiveness and sustainability of the Basin's energy needs.
