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Snam to develop LNG for vehicles in Israel

PIPELINES & ITALIAN gas grid firm Snam has struck deals and research agreement with Israeli start-up
TRANSPORT with Israeli firms on the use of LNG and other H2Pro, which has developed an “innovative”
alternative fuels in Israel’s transport sector. technology known as E-TAC for producing
Snam signed one agreement with the coun- green hydrogen. H2Pro claims the technology
try’s largest gas supplier Delek Drilling and its can yield 30% more hydrogen from water than
main public transport provider Dan on develop- traditional electrolysis. Snam and H2Pro will
ing a supply chain for using LNG as a transport carry out joint research, and may apply H2Pro’s
fuel in Israel, particularly for buses and heavy technologies at projects and take part in project
vehicles. tenders both in Israel and in Europe.
The group will carry out feasibility studies on “With these agreements we are further
building a small-scale liquefaction pilot plant developing Snam’s international presence to
and LNG refuelling infrastructure, leveraging strengthen our contribution to the energy tran-
Snam’s technologies and Delek’s gas reserves. sition and the achievement of global climate
Delek operates a number of onshore and offshore objectives,” Snam CEO Marco Alvera com-
gas licences in Israel. Its largest projects are the mented. “The partnerships with Delek Drilling,
Leviathan and Tamar fields in the Mediterranean Dan and H2Pro ... allow us to enter a new mar-
Sea. ket with projects in sectors of our interest such
Snam also signed a memorandum of under- as sustainable mobility and hydrogen and, at the
standing (MoU) with Dan on evaluating the same time, to increase our know-how in one of
use of biomethane, green hydrogen and elec- the most innovative contexts in the world.”
tricity in transport. The deal could pave the way Israel wants to ban the sale of new gasoline
for the conversion of some of Dan’s vehicles and diesel-powered vehicles after 2030, replac-
to run on these energy sources, as well as the ing them with gas-fuelled and electric cars and
development of pilot refuelling and recharging trucks. And thanks to major offshore discoveries
infrastructure. over the past decade, it now has more gas than it
Finally, the Italian firm signed a collaboration can use or readily export.™

QP selects Honeywell as instrument and

control contractor for LNG expansion

PROJECTS & QATAR Petroleum (QP) has selected Honeywell alarm management and plant operation infor-
COMPANIES to be the main instrument and control contrac- mation systems. In addition, its cybersecurity
tor for its North Field East (NFE) project. The technology and services will be used to help
project is being developed by Qatargas on QP’s safeguard the project infrastructure.
behalf to underpin Qatar’s expansion of lique- Honeywell also said its Industrial Internet of
faction capacity by 43% from 77mn tonnes per Things-enabled Lean Execution for Automa-
year to 110mn tpy. tion Projects (LEAP) methodology would be
The project entails the development of four deployed. The LEAP approach provides more
new LNG mega-trains as well as associated facil- predictable construction costs and enables
ities. Production from the expansion is due to remote project engineering from anywhere in
start in 2025. the world, it added. Honeywell said it would
Honeywell said in an October 22 statement implement smart junction boxes (SJB) technol-
that its technology would provide the NFE pro- ogy for control and safety systems to reduce the
ject with “streamlined automation and safety number of instrumentation cabinets compared
systems while reducing schedule risks and with previous technologies. It expects this to
delivering [capital expenditure] efficiencies”. The allow for faster project execution and reduced
company’s instrumentation and control systems installation costs.
will be integrated into the NFE main control “We’re delighted to play a central role in the
building in Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC) largest and most ambitious LNG project in the
and instrument technical rooms (ITRs) will be world,” stated Honeywell’s vice-president of
located throughout the process area, it said. global strategic projects, Tarek Nahl. “Our tech-
The system will include Honeywell’s control nologies will aid Qatargas in reaching its pro-
and safety solutions, operator training simula- duction targets more efficiently while helping it
tion, multi-variable process control, pipelines achieve its safety, reliability, security and profit-
management, instrument asset management, ability metrics.”™

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