Gas: Livorno regasification terminal at full capacity, it is 5% of requirements

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(ANSA) – LIVORNO, 25 FEB – The FSRU Toscana regasification terminal, off the coast of Livorno, is working at full capacity, unloading one ship a week. To report it in a note is the Olt company that manages it. Activity at full capacity that takes place “always in maximum safety”, always affirm by Olt, and guaranteeing full attention to environmental protection, as recognized by the competent Authorities, which monitor the activities of the regasification plant.

Olt Offshore Lng Toscana, a company owned by Snam and First Sentier Investors, manages the regasification terminal moored about 22 kilometers off the coast between Livorno and Pisa. It is an infrastructure that works to provide support for Italy’s energy security.

“We came into operation in the summer of 2013 – declares one of the two directors of Olt, Giovanni Giorgi – Since then we have received gas from almost all areas of the world: Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Qatar, Trinidad & Tobago, United States. The regasification capacity of Fsru Toscana – he continues – is 3.75 billion standard cubic meters of gas per year, about 5% of Italian needs “.

“Thanks to this flexibility of use – affirms the other director of Olt, Maurizio Zangrandi – our terminal provides an important contribution to the safety and diversification of gas supplies to the country”. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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