It is in the harbor. Away from Portovesme. Ten thousand kilometers as the crow flies from that chimney that towers over one of the most devastated industrial areas in Europe like a leaning tower. The name says it all: Golar Arctic. Golar stands for Golar LNG Limited, a company registered in the deep tax havens of Bermuda, a stone's throw from the United States. By profession Tor Olav Trøim, Norwegian, president of the company and Karl Fredrik Staubo, managing director, also Norwegian, rent, sell, transport, store and regasify gas. Arctic, on the other hand, is the proper name of a mega gas carrier, with an arctic call, destined, in the dreams of Draghi & Snam, to sail the oceans to rest on the east bank of the industrial port of Portovesme, which has always been a crossroads of coal, bauxite and alumina.
At anchor in Malaysia
Last night, however, the Golar Arctic was stationed on the other side of the world, in front of the devastated coasts of Sumatra, close to Kuala Lumpur, in front of the port of Malacca in Malaysia. According to the plans of those who bought it, Snam spa, that giant of the seas had to be transformed into an FSRU, or a floating storage and regasification unit. For the gigantic figure of 269 million euros, the company dedicated to state gas, Snam, grabbed it even before the Draghi government scored the coup with which it denied Sardinia rights and serious infrastructures in energy theme. As if someone had warned them before, Snam's managers made a very expensive blitz to buy that ship to be transformed into a regasification plant to be placed on the outskirts of southern Sardinia.
Gas alembic
A sort of "gas still" to provide some energy to the industrial area of Portovesme, destined to remain in the dark after the wicked idea of turning off, without a credible alternative plan, the Enel coal plant, without converting it to gas as was happening for all the others, before the war, throughout Italy. The plan on which to found that subspecies of underdevelopment methanization put in black and white by the Draghi government, now, however, risks being blatantly beached in the shallows of the port of Sulcis. What we are about to tell you is a dramatically serious story that could, however, easily be counted in the state "cabaret". After making the methane pipeline project between Algeria-Sardinia-Europe fail between underground games and Eni's interests and having wrecked a backbone capable of supplying methane to the entire island, the Government, at Snam's proposal, had thought of solving everything by placing a gas carrier converted to regasification in the east quay of Portovesme, the one opposite the ferries to San Pietro.
