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Monsud at the service

of the execution

of major Oil & Gas plants

Engineering, supply, inspection, testing, packaging and
transportation of steel structures (Pipe rack, Process structures,
Shelter, Walkways and secondary structures), including surface
protection and fireproofing, as Saipem’s subcontractor for the
Cornegliano Laudense Natural Gas project

Domenico Pierni, President and General Manager,
Carmine Pierni, lawyer and CEO
Monsud S.p.A

n a scenario where the storage of any energy
source appears as a winning solution to
several supply issues, a valuable contribution
was given by the gas storage plant of
Cornegliano Laudense, owned by Ital Gas
IStorage and achieved through the
“Cornegliano Laudense Natural Gas” project by
Saipem S.p.A., who has entrusted to Monsud
S.p.A. the supply of metal carpentry of Pipe Racks,
Process Structures, Shelters and accessories,
including surface protection treatments and fire
protection treatment of structures (fireproofing).

The project “Cornegliano Laudense
Natural Gas” provided of the
construction of a gas collection,
storage and purification plant, as
well as the construction of a process
water purification plant and associated
warehouses
winter months, thus giving rise to a sequence of Figura 1 - Metal
The Ital Gas Storage plant was an old natural gas cyclical operation. structures supplied
field with an extension of about 6 Km^2 and The project “Cornegliano Laudense Natural Gas” by Monsud S.p.A to
located at an average depth of 1.4 Km in the consisted of the construction of a gas collection, the Construction site
subsoil of the municipality of Conegliano Laudense, storage and purification plant, as well as the
discovered by ENI (then AGIP) in 1951. Following construction of a process water purification plant
the exhaustion of natural gas, having the related and warehouses servicing of the plant.
cavity a geological structure with petrophysical In the period between 2017 and 2018 the company
characteristics suitable for the gas storage, it has Monsud S.p.A has carried out the activities of
been converted into an infrastructure capable of engineering, supply, inspection, testing, packaging
storing gas purchased during the summer months, and transport of steel structures, for a total of about
where the price is significantly lower, then extract it 1800 tons (Figures 1 and 2), including the various
and put it back into the distribution network in the surface treatments, through the company Saipem

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