据管道新闻网5月12日消息称，意大利天然气集团Snam已与西班牙Enagas达成协议，探讨在两国之间修建一条海上管道。

在欧洲，西班牙对从美国等供应商进口的液化天然气进行再气化的能力最强，但将天然气穿越比利牛斯山脉运输到欧洲一直是个问题。

Snam新任首席执行官Stefano Venier在第一季业绩电话会议上表示，如果该管道获批，其年产能将高达300亿立方米。

他说：“在海上部署比在地面部署更容易。”他补充说，该项目的可行性研究需要三到四个月的时间。

Venier表示，该集团还将考虑重新启动每年80亿立方米的Midcat项目，将西班牙液化天然气输送到法国。

Snam的最大投资者是国有银行CDP，它也在寻求购买两艘浮式再气化船来处理额外的液化天然气供应。

Venier表示，他预计其中一艘船将于明年投入使用，第二艘将于2024年投入使用。意大利目前只有三个液化天然气终端。

曹海斌 摘译自 管道新闻网

原文如下：

Snam Signs Deal to Study Spain-Italy Gas Pipeline

Italian gas group Snam has agreed with Spain's Enagas to explore the construction of an offshore pipeline between the two countries.

Spain has the largest capacity in Europe to regasify imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) from suppliers such as the United States but transporting gas into Europe across the Pyrenees has been a problem.

The pipeline, if approved, would have a capacity of up to 30 billion cubic meters (Bcm) per year, Snam's new CEO Stefano Venier said in a conference call on first-quarter results.

"Being offshore, it's easier to be deployed than on the ground," he said, adding the feasibility study for the project should take three to four months.

Venier said the group would also be looking at a possible relaunch of the 8 Bcm per year Midcat project to carry Spanish LNG into France.

Snam, whose biggest investor is state lender CDP, is also looking to acquire two floating regasification vessels to process extra LNG supply.

Venier said he expected one of the vessels to be on stream next year and the second in 2024. Italy currently only has three LNG terminals.