en.Wedoany.com Reported - Italian natural gas infrastructure operator Snam is upgrading its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, developed in partnership with industrial software company AVEVA, to ensure the safe transport and dispatch of the country's strategic natural gas.

Snam is the primary operator of natural gas transportation, storage, and regasification in Italy. The company operates a pipeline network of approximately 38,000 kilometers in Italy and abroad, leading Europe in natural gas transport capacity. Additionally, Snam manages one-sixth of the EU's total natural gas storage capacity and is the third-largest regasification entity in the region, with an annual managed or co-managed capacity of 28 billion cubic meters.

Snam uses a transportation and storage SCADA system that supports monitoring and remote control of the gas pipeline network, compression stations, and storage facilities. This integrated system monitors 13 compression stations and 9 natural gas storage facilities, with three additional facilities recently incorporated. Managing approximately 7,000 field devices across the network, the SCADA system handles around 120,000 variables. The control room sends approximately 200 commands daily and processes about 300 alarms, with dispatch services operating continuously 24/7 throughout the year.

Snam's collaboration with AVEVA began in 2011. Initially, the system was used solely for natural gas transportation, and in 2020 it was merged with another natural gas storage system to form a unified platform. As part of routine improvements, Snam is currently upgrading the SCADA system, redesigning it to leverage the latest market technologies. This is part of the ongoing evolution of their solid partnership.

The upgrade is expected to introduce new customized features and enhance cybersecurity controls in line with requirements from Italy's National Cybersecurity Agency. The agency has access to Snam's SCADA system and will conduct evaluation tests on the new system. AVEVA is providing the new SCADA system and has been collaborating with Snam over the past two years to configure the new architecture. The new system is scheduled for completion in early 2027, implemented through a commissioning plan with an expected short turnaround time to minimize disruption to Snam's operations.

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