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Snam

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Traded as
  
BIT: SRG

Revenue
  
3.649 billion EUR (2015)

Industry
  
Gas industry

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Type
  
Public (Società per azioni)

Founded
  
October 30, 1941 (1941-10-30)

Key people
  
Carlo Malacarne (Chairman) Marco Alverà (CEO)

Services
  
Natural gas transmission, storage and distribution

Stock price
  
SRG (BIT) € 3.96 -0.02 (-0.45%)24 Mar, 5:36 PM GMT+1 - Disclaimer

CEO
  
Carlo Malacarne (May 2006–)

Headquarters
  
San Donato Milanese, Italy

Subsidiaries
  
Stoccaggi Gas Italia S.p.A., Snam, GNL Italia S.p.A., Snam Rete Gas S.p.A.

Profiles

Snam 2016 institutional video


Snam S.p.A. (BIT: SRG) is an Italian natural gas infrastructure company. As of 31 December 2015, it had a market capitalization of €16.97 billion. Snam was originally a subsidiary of Italian energy company Eni. It has since become an independent company, whose largest shareholder is CDP Reti, a holding company controlled by the Italian state. The utility operates in Italy and, through associated companies, in Austria, France and United Kingdom. Snam is one of Europe's main regulated gas companies - leading Italy in gas transport, storage and distribution, while ranking third in regasification. Its main peers, in the regulated gas and electricity sectors in Italy and in Europe, are:

Contents

  • Terna (Italy): the main grid owner, responsible for high voltage electricity transmission and dispatching nationwide
  • Enagas (Spain): Technical Manager of the Spanish gas System and the main carrier of natural gas
  • REE - Red Eléctrica de España (Spain): manages the transmission grid and acts as sole transmission agent; it is also the System Operator
  • National Grid (UK): operates in the regulated businesses of transmission and distribution of electricity and gas mainly in the UK and northeastern US
  • The separation from snam


    History

    Snam was founded on 30 October 1941 in San Donato Milanese, Lombardy, with the name Societá NAzionale Metanodotti.

    On 1 June 2001, it changed its name to Snam Rete Gas. It has been on quoted on the Borsa Italiana since 6 December 2001. On 1 January 2012, it was renamed with the original name of Snam.

    Subsidiaries

    Snam has following subsidiaries:

  • Snam Rete Gas S.p.A.: the transmission system operator for natural gas;
  • Italgas S.p.A. and its subsidiary Napoletana Gas):the distribution group for natural gas ;
  • Stogit S.p.A.: storage of natural gas;
  • GNL Italia S.p.A.: for the regasification of liquefied natural gas.
  • Shareholders structure

    As of April 2016

    Board of Directors

    Appointed by the Shareholders’Meeting on April 2016

    Sustainability

    Snam's approach to sustainability is based on Shared Value, a concept elaborated by Michael E. Porter in collaboration with Mark R. Kramer that explores the link between a company and its environment and their mutual interdependence. In order to create Shared Value, Snam promotes sustainable development along its entire transport, dispatchment, regasification, storage and distribution process.

    In 2009 the company joined the United Nations Global Compact and since 2006 has published a sustainability report in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative's guidelines. Moreover, Snam operates within the reference framework of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fundamental Conventions of the ILO and the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises.

    Its commitment towards the environment focuses on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and safeguarding biodiversity. Among its social initiatives, Snam partners with Legambiente and Federparchi and, in 2012, joined the Sodalitas Foundation, which seeks to build bridges between the entrepreneurial world in Italy and the non-profit sector.

    References

    Snam Wikipedia