Snam celebrates 85 years of serving Italy

On 30 October 1941, the National Metanoduct Company, Snam, was born, which in 85 years of history has accompanied the industrial development of the country and today guarantees its competitiveness and safety. The company celebrates today, at the Auditorium della musica in Rome, the 85th anniversary of its service to Italy in the presence of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, the ministers of Sport Andrea Abodi, of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi, of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin and of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani and numerous representatives of institutions and companies.

The anniversary, explains the company, was an opportunity to retrace a history that is closely intertwined with the economic and industrial history of Italy, made up of infrastructures, skills and large projects at the service of the country.

"Snam conceived, designed and implemented the progressive methanization of Italy, following the guidance and intuitions of Enrico Mattei, who was its president from 1949 until his death in 1962 - explains the company - The development of the methane deposits in the Po Valley and the construction of the network of the first methane pipelines contributed to laying the foundations of the Italian economic boom, and the extension of the infrastructure on a national scale also made gas a lever for the development of Midday".

Today Snam "operates along the different components of the gas system, from transportation to storage up to regasification. The network exceeds 38 thousand kilometers in Italy and abroad and the most recent investments, from the new regasifiers to the Adriatica Line, from the CO2 capture and storage project in Ravenna to the constant consolidation of the storage facilities, now over 90% full in view of the winter season, continue in the direction of greater safety and flexibility of the system".