Panigaglia LNG Terminal

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Panigaglia LNG Terminal is an LNG import terminal in Italy with units that are cancelled (confirmed) and operating.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Expansion	Porto Venere, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy	44.07428, 9.83087 (exact)
Panigaglia LNG Terminal (base project)	Porto Venere, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy	44.07428, 9.83087 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Infrastructure details

mtpa = million tonnes per year

Name	Facility type	Status	Capacity	Total terminal capacity	Offshore	Associated infrastructure
Expansion	import	cancelled (confirmed)	3.5 mtpa	6.0 mtpa	False	–
Panigaglia LNG Terminal (base project)	import	operating	2.5 mtpa	6.0 mtpa	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Expansion	import	–	–
Panigaglia LNG Terminal (base project)	import	–	–

Financing

No financing data available.

Table 4: Project timeline

FID = Final Investment Decision, used by some developers to indicate a project will move forward

Name	Facility type	Status	Proposal year	FID year	Construction year	Operating year	Inactive year
Expansion	import	cancelled (confirmed)	2007	–	–	–	2015 (cancelled)
Panigaglia LNG Terminal (base project)	import	operating	–	–	–	1969	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Expansion	import	cancelled (confirmed)	GNL Italia Spa	Snam SpA	GNL Italia Spa
Panigaglia LNG Terminal (base project)	import	operating	GNL Italia Spa	Snam SpA	GNL Italia Spa

Background

Panigaglia LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Liguria Region, Italy. It was built in 1971, and is owned by Snam (which was a subsidiary of Eni until 2012).

The Panigaglia terminal was Italy's first LNG facility and the only such terminal in Italy until 2009. While Panigaglia was unloading large amounts of LNG as recently as 2012, by 2013-15 it was hardly operating at all. In response to diminishing demand, the terminal took one of its 50,000 m³ storage tanks offline in 2015, but with the resurgence of LNG in the Italian market the tank was brought back online in 2020. Despite this newly restored capacity, storage at the 100,000 m³ Panigaglia terminal remains smaller than at Italy's other two other LNG terminals, the 137,500 m³ Toscana LNG Terminal and the 250,000 m³ Adriatic LNG Terminal.

The June 2024 annual GIIGNL report said that a plant modernization program was being carried out at the facility, which "concerns most components of the terminal including vaporizers, berths, arms, and BOG compressors."

According to the May 2025 annual GIIGNL report, major modernization work was still ongoing at the facility. In addition the Province of La Spezia renewed the project's integrated environmental authorization, permitting it to operate through 2037.

Opposition

Opposition groups have cited the low utilization rates of Italy's operating LNG terminals to call into question the necessity of such extensive LNG infrastructure in the country. According to Food and Water Europe's 2019 profile on Italy's gas use, "Between January 2012 and March 2019 all Italian LNG terminals were used at only ~31% of their capacity."

Expansion I

In October 2007, Snam was planning to spend about $650 million to more than double the terminal's capacity. That plan has since been cancelled, according to media coverage from 2015, and this is presumed to be the cancellation year.

Expansion II

Snam's newly announced 2026-2030 Strategic Plan allocates around EUR 0.3 billion to expansion of the Panigaglia LNG terminal in order to extend its operational life and enable the "Virtual Pipeline" supply route to Sardinia. Once complete, the regasificaiton capacity of the LNG terminal will increase by 30%.

In April 2026, it was reported that the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (MASE) has given the green light to exclude from the Environmental Impact Assessment (VIA) process the Snam's project to expand the onshore regasification terminal from the current 3.5 to 4.6 billion cubic meters per year, while also increasing the capacity of gas tankers the terminal can accommodate for unloading liquefied natural gas to 145,000 cubic meters. The approval specifies that certain specific environmental conditions must be met. According to the source, the request to increase capacity by over one billion cubic meters had been submitted by Snam in mid-2024 and, in presenting the project to Mase, the company that owns the terminal and the regasification terminal estimated the new capacity would be made available by early 2032 if the exemption from the EIA had arrived after the summer of that year. The project is now included in Snam's latest Industrial Plan, and CEO Agostino Scornajenchi recently said the goal is to bring the new capacity to the market by the end of 2030 at the latest.

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