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REF-E has published the executive summary and some of the main tables of its report on LNG final uses in Italy in 2017. Data shows a LNG consumption increase (+50%) over the previous year, driven by industry sector which is however giving way to transport sector (LNG and CNG uses).
For 2020 REF-E estimates consumptions 4 times higher, driven by heavy road transport (no significant contribution will come from maritime sector). The development of the sector is slowed by the lack of supply points in Italy even if some projects of coastal deposits could be operational in a couple of years in Oristano, Ravenna and Livorno, for a total capacity of about 50 thousand cubic meters.
Using almost exclusively the FOS regasification plant in Marseilles, in 2017 the service stations that supply LNG and CNG were more than doubled, reaching a total number of 15, and three other were inaugurated between January and February 2018. There are 19 plants in operation beside industries. This is the sector that more than any other suffered from the competition of fuel oil and other petroleum derivatives between 2016 and 2017.
The report, which in 2017 also focused on the methanisation of Sardinia, underlines that the lack of supply points and the uncertainty for the implementation of provisional alternative solutions, such as the use of isocontainers carried by sea, is a problem. The free contents of the report are available at https://www.ref-e.com/it/what-we-offer/osservatorio-gnl
