Saipem Wins Contract to Build TAP Offshore Pipeline
Italian oil service company Saipem has won a contract to lay the offshore tract of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) that will transport Azeri gas into Italy, TAP said on Thursday. TAP gave no financial details. The 105-kilometer pipeline will run from Albania to southern Italy at a maximum depth of 820 metres below the sea. (Reporting by Stephen Jewkes)
Interoute Opens New Diverse Fibre Route in Southern Italy
Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud service platform, has added a third route to access its pan European fibre network, from two of its submarine cable landing stations in Southern Italy. The new 1,300 km stretch of fibre is part of Interoute’s 7,000 km Italian network, which helps make up its 67,000km pan European platform. The new route will provide diverse, high capacity connectivity from Interoute’s landing stations in Mazara del Vallo (Sicily) and Bari (Puglia), for submarine cables looking to connect to Europe. In recent years cables from Greece, Malta
GPS Spoofing and the Potential Perils to Ships at Sea
was to measure the difficulty of carrying out a spoofing attack at sea and to determine whether sensors on the vessel could identify the attack. With the permission of the owner, members of the team boarded the yacht in Monaco en route Rhodes. When the yacht was about 30 miles off southern Italy, they transmitted false GPS signals slightly stronger than the actual ones. The signals were then modified to show that the yacht as slowly moving slightly to starboard. The signal deviation was slowly increased so as not to arouse alarm. The yacht, operating on auto-pilot,
ABB Wins Italian Offshore Oil Terminal Contract
ABB wins a contract worth about US$40-million to extend the export terminal of the eni (Energy Rifinery Co.) refinery in Taranto. The eni refinery is located in the “Mar Grande” bay on the Ionian Sea in southern Italy. The contract is part of eni’s plan to improve the refinery infrastructure and to ensure a reliable connection with the onshore Tempa Rossa oil plant. The refinery is located at the export terminal and is connected to the oil field through an underground pipeline. The plan includes the extension of an existing pier. “This new project will help to improve the
February 2024
