03/11/2010 | Natural Gas - Lng - Lpg |
The official EU bulletin n. 55/13of March 5, 2010 reports that concerning Eni's agreement to spin off its gas pipeline stakes in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Brussels is asking all interested third parties to present observations on the commitments presented by the Italian company, in an effort ...
03/11/2010 | Companies |
Landi Renzo has begun supplying Toyota with its Lpg systems for the Aygo and Yaris models, for sale beginning this month. Ceo Claudio Carnevale exults that “being chosen by Toyota in the development and production of its Lpg bi-fuel vehicles is a further proof of the technological level and capacity ...
03/11/2010 | Electricity |
Terna has published the modalities for assigning instantaneous interruptible service for the period of March 1 to Dec. 31, as per the Energy Authority ruling n.201/09. Terna will assign these quantities: a quantity made available by the subjects holding title to quotas of the interruptible service u ...
03/11/2010 | Oil Market |
Autogrill and Esso Italiana have announced an agreement allowing Nuova Sidap (an Autogrill group company) to take over a network of sales points now operated by Se.Stra. - Servizi Stradali (an Esso company). The agreement concerns 80 service stations which will remain the property of Esso, and will ...
03/11/2010 | Oil Market |
The customs agency website, ‘Agenzia della Dogana', has published the March 2 the document on bioethanol quota allocations: “Bioetanolo: Assegnazione quote 2010 di prodotto agevolativo previsto dall'articolo 22 bis, comma 5 del d.l.vo n. 504/95”.
The sum available for incentives in 2010 is 3. ...
03/11/2010 | Oil Market |
Construction of the M&G plant will begin in the next few months, and bioethanol production will begin in 2011, M&G Mossi&Ghisolfi has announced. The second generation plant will produce 45,000 t a year, and will be built not at Rivalta, as has been announced, but at Crescentino (Vercelli). The annou ...
03/11/2010 | Companies |
Capacity of 3-5bn m3 of gas a year, 160 km between Komotini (Greece) and Stara Zagora (Bulgaria), investments of 140mn euros. A few days following creation of the company that will build the Interconnector Greece–Bulgaria gas pipeline, Edison has reported the project's details. BEH (Bulgarian Energy ...
03/11/2010 | Environment |
Eni is planning to spend 2.604bn euros for environmental reclamation and security for 20 sites of national interest, after having already spent 1.535bn, Ceo Paolo Scaroni told a parliamentary commission investigating eco-mafias. Scaroni added that for the sites of Gela and Priolo in Sicily, a total ...
03/11/2010 | Exploration & Production |
A few days later than planned
(see SN n. 1 2010), the Woollybutt field is back in production. The floating platform Four Rainbow has arrived on the site, and Tap Oil has announced that production is expected to return to pre-shut down levels of about 8000 to 9000 barrels per day. Production was suspended on April 28, 2009
(see SN n. 15 2009) to allow the FPSO vessel to complete a scheduled drydocking ...
03/11/2010 | Environment |
Lower production and less use of Btz coal: these are the conditions Enel will offer on the occasion of the services conference for renewal of the environmental authorization Aia to keep the coal-fired power plant “Pietro Vannucci” in Bastardo (province of Perugia) from closing. The situation is anal ...
03/11/2010 | Electricity |
The Gazzetta Ufficiale has published the decree setting out the criteria for selecting nuclear power sites. It bears the date of Feb. 15, 2010, n. 31 and deals with “Regulation of localization, realization, and operation on national territory of nuclear power plants for the production of electricity ...
03/11/2010 | Electricity |
Italy is favorable to plants here and therefore also in Albania and in Slovenia, and there have already been meetings to make these hypotheses concrete. Foreign minister Franco Frattini thus answered a query about Italy's position on nuclear plants in Albania and on the upgrading of the Krsko plant ...
03/11/2010 | Companies |
The number of companies which ended 2009 with losses is increasing. After Saras, it is now Erg's turn. The Garrone family company closed the year with a net group loss of 80mn euros (against an 84mn gain in 2008) and an Ebitda of 92mn (540mn in 2008). The fourth quarter's Ebitda was also down to 21m ...
03/11/2010 | Companies |
Erg Renew's net loss in 2009 increased to 28mn euros, compared to the 24.4mn for 2008. But the Ebitda was 23.1mn, up 132% over 2008, while 2009 revenues increased 16% to 50.5mn. The net result was affected by write-downs of good will and equity investments amounting to 17.4mn (0.6mn in 2008) and pro ...
03/11/2010 | Companies |
Ansaldo Energia executives say that “we are in an advanced phase. We hope that within a period that is not too long, a question of weeks or a month and half, we will conclude talks to reach a solution that may be stock-market listing or the sale of a minority stake to a partner”. The news was report ...