09/02/2010 | Energy Policy and Tariffs | GOG
A lot of folklore, with exhibitions of horsemanship and a tent set up in the garden of the Libyan embassy, marked Qaddafi's visit to Rome to celebrate the second anniversary of the signing of the Italo-Libyan friendship treaty with Silvio Berlusconi. But the visit also puts a seal on the closer rela ...
09/02/2010 | Natural Gas - Lng - Lpg |
The Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 200 of Aug. 27 includes the decree 6 August 2010 of the Economic Development Ministry setting the criteria under which companies producing natural gas in Italy must sell the shares owed to the state on the energy market manager GME's P-Gas negotiation platform
(see separate article below). The Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 2010 of Aug. 28 includes the minist ...
09/02/2010 | Natural Gas - Lng - Lpg |
During the first two sessions of royalty sales on the P-Gas platform of the market manager GME, held Monday and Tuesday of this week, 12,620 contracts for Eni with delivery in October for a total of 1,408.392 GJ (36mn m3) were underwritten. GME figures show the first 8,411 contracts for 938,667 GJ w ...
09/02/2010 | Electricity |
The Energy Authority has published its June 11 ruling approving Sogin's expenses in 2009 for the decommissioning of the old Italian nuclear plants. Ruling ARG/elt 86/10 quantifies the burdens at 217.42mn euros, a sum of the following components: external costs for decommissioning, 56.70mn; external ...
09/02/2010 | Electricity |
On Aug. 27, at the Economy Ministry of Slovenia, a memorandum of understanding between that ministry and the Italian Economic Development Ministry on the principles and goals of electricity market coupling was signed. Its goal is to support the process of allocation of cross-border power transmissi ...
09/02/2010 | Oil Market |
The first service station supplying fuel from Lng has now opened in Villafalletto (Cuneo), months after work on it had been completed last February. The station was built by Vanzetti Engineering and has a 600 m3/h capacity, able to supply fuel up to 500 kg/h. The liquid natural gas comes from Spain ...
09/02/2010 | Exploration & Production |
The region of Basilicata's bulletin n.35 of Aug. 16 has published ruling n. 866 of July 20 with which the environment department authorizes definitive work and the beginning of production in the area of Pozzo Cerro Falcone 2 (CF2), in the municipality of Calvello (Potenza) owned by Eni.
The lo ...
09/02/2010 | Energy Policy and Tariffs |
The EU's Official Gazette of Aug. 28, L227/62, contains the Nov. 19, 2009, decision of the Commission on state aid, C 38/A/04 (ex NN 58/04) and C 36/B/06 (ex NN 38/06), concerning especially the extension of special electricity rates in Sardinia favoring Alcoa Trasformazioni. This decision was the b ...
09/02/2010 | Electricity |
Over three years after the complete opening of the electricity market for all consumers on July 1, 2007, more than 3.2mn households and 1.2mn small businesses have changed their supply companies, a total of more than 4.4mn, or 12.2% of the total, with an increase in switching of 4% in the last year. ...
09/02/2010 | Natural Gas - Lng - Lpg |
The Energy Authority has sent parliament and the government a note about some aspects of the legislative decree 13 August 2010 n. 130, “measures for greater competition in the natural gas market and the transfer of resultant benefits to end users”
(see SN n. 32 2010). One of the modifications the authority proposes is, as we reported, exclusion of self-consumption from the ca ...
09/02/2010 | Renewables and Conservation |
Siemens will own over 51% of the Italian firm Archimede Solar within 12 months, according to what Siemens Italia Ceo Federico Golla told in Rimini. On May 17, Siemens announced that its stake in Archimede had risen from 28% to 45%, and Golla affirmed that that was preparation for acquiring a majorit ...
09/02/2010 | Natural Gas - Lng - Lpg |
Despite improvement in predictions about 2010 natural gas demand (+3.8% in Italy and +2.2% in Europe), Eni forecasts a weak market scenario because of oversupply. In its six-month report published on Aug. 6, the company says the situation will continue to expose the group to risks deriving from the ...
09/02/2010 | Natural Gas - Lng - Lpg |
Transitgas, the pipeline bringing Italy natural gas from northern Europe and accounting for 17-18% of the country's consumption, will not be able to operate in full security for another three or four months. The statement of the company, of which Eni owns 46%, explains that Transitgas will announce ...
09/02/2010 | Natural Gas - Lng - Lpg |
Avelar Energy and Flyenergy, affiliates of the Russian company Renova, are offering transport capacity on the Austrian gas pipeline TAG from Slovakia to Italy from Oct. 1, 2010 to Oct. 1, 2011 for, respectively, 15,600 and 15,000 m3 an hour, for a total of 268mn m3. The companies' announcements are ...
09/02/2010 | Natural Gas - Lng - Lpg |
Adriatic Lng, the ExxonMobil, Qatar and Edison joint venture owning the Porto Viro Lng terminal near Rovigo, has announced availability of regasification capacity at the terminal on a spot basis for September and on a monthly basis for October, December and January (or February). Unloading slots, al ...