Collee Santo26 Nov 2024 17:52
The development of small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) is supported by a positive institutional strategic environment at the global and national levels, in order to achieve the long-term goal of reducing local and atmospheric emissions.
The importance of liquefied natural gas is also underlined in the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan 2030 (PNIEC), the fundamental tool for energy and environmental policy towards decarbonisation.
The use of LNG instead of traditional fuels allows a significant reduction in CO2, minus 20% in land transport and minus 25% in maritime transport, while emissions from other polluting matrices such as NOx, SOX, VOC and fine particles, which are the absolute enemy for air quality, are practically eliminated.
Liquefied natural gas is obtained by cooling natural gas to -160 degrees Celsius and occupies 600 times less volume than gaseous natural gas.
Easily transportable by land and sea, it is
immediately available as fuel for the transport of vehicles and boats.
LNG buyers include: fuel stations for heavy and light vehicles, industrial plants and small distribution networks.
In Abruzzo, Collesanto is the largest, tested, and not yet producing onshore natural gas field in Western Europe.
The small-scale liquefaction plant that is intended to be considered for the production of the Collesanto field would be the first of its kind in Italy.
The conversion of natural gas at the mouth of the well into LNG, as in the case of Collesanto, produces significant economies of scale to the advantage of the market and contributes to the saving of emissions into the atmosphere in cases where it is transported from abroad before reaching our coasts.
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