Work on the Adriatic Line, Snam's project to upgrade Italy's pipeline gas transportation network, will start by May. More than three years of work are planned, during which 425 kilometers of new pipeline entirely hydrogen ready, that is, ready to accommodate the passage of hydrogen, will be laid-between Abruzzo and Emilia, and many companies specialized in the energy sector, both domestic and foreign, will be involved. The cost will be 2.5 billion euros. The goal of the new infrastructure is to support the energy security and transition of Italy and Europe. All the more so now that, after the Russian-Ukrainian war, more than 50 percent of gas supplies arrive from the three entry points in southern Italy (from where, just four years ago, 20 percent of imported gas flowed instead), and it is therefore essential to have the transport infrastructure capacity needed to push today's gas (and tomorrow's hydrogen) to the north of the country and also to Europe itself (in light of export volumes that have now reached 2 billion cubic meters, increasing by more than 100 percent from 2022 to 2023).
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