S N A M • I N N O V A T I O N • P L A N
T r a n s f o r m i n g o u r f u t u r e
INNOVATING THE CORE: ASSETS AND OPERATIONS TRANSFORMATION
S N A M • I N N O V A T I O N • P L A N
T r a n s f o r m i n g o u r f u t u r e
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INNOVATING THE CORE BUSINESS: | 8 | OLTRE | 36 | |
TRANSFORMING ASSETS AND OPERATIONS | 4 | 8.1 From vision to reality | 36 | |
8.2 Inspiration for future excellence | 37 | |||
2 Snam's excellence in operational activities | 8.3 Snam Energy Excellence: the excellence | |||
2.1 Context | 6 | model | 38 | |
2.2 Snam's vision for the future of assets | 8.4 Snam Intangible Network: the company's | |||
and processes | 7 | information asset | 38 | |
3 Our approach to the evolution of assets | 8.5 Snam Verso: the secure gateway to the outside world | 39 | ||
and processes | 10 | 8.6 Snam Engine: the engine that continuously | ||
generates new transformative solutions | 39 | |||
4 The evolution pillars transforming | 8.7 Snam Monitor: the intelligent user interface | 39 | ||
assets and operations | 12 | |||
4.1 Asset intelligence pillars | 12 | 9 | The Integrated Masterplan: Shaping asset | |
4.2 Process pillars | 14 | and process evolution through the 2030s | 40 | |
5 The SnamTEC programme | 16 | |||
5.1 SnamTEC's founding pillars | 16 | |||
5.2 SnamTEC's areas of intervention | 20 | |||
5.2.1 Construction & O&M | 21 | |||
5.2.2 Gas operations | 21 | |||
5.2.3 Asset integrity | 22 | |||
5.2.4 Asset enhancement | 23 | |||
5.3 Enabling industrial technologies within
SnamTEC 24
- T.LAB 26
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Asset Control Room 28
Data platform & governance: Managing data
as an asset 30
Document platform & governance:
Transforming documents into digital entities 32
ACR Hall: User onboarding 33
ACR Walls: Integrated, end-to-end process
views 33
Digital Asset Model: The Digital Twin
of corporate assets 34
Beyond digitalisation - a hybrid space
for innovation 35
INNOVATING THE CORE BUSINESS:
TRANSFORMING
ASSETS AND OPERATIONS
Tomorrow's Energy Company
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SNAM'S EXCELLENCE IN OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Context
FIGURE 1 - SNAM'S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
Today's business landscape is becoming increasingly complex, shaped by a convergence of global pressures and rapid technological progress.
Snam's vision for the future of assets and processes
Snam builds, operates and maintains its asset, pursuing the following objectives:
Technological innovation is progressing at an unprecedented pace, introducing new tools and solutions that are fundamentally transforming business models and competitive dynamics. To stay ahead, companies must constantly adapt, making strategic choices about which technologies best align with their asset management goals and process transformation efforts. By taking a synergistic approach that combines intelligent assets with streamlined process management, companies can leverage advanced technologies to enhance operational efficiency and respond swiftly to evolving market demands. To deliver real value, these technologies must be business-driven, designed and implemented in close alignment with strategic priorities.
Simultaneously, climate change is emerging as one of the most pressing global challenges, with far-reaching implications for environmental sustainability, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder expectations from both consumers and investors. Companies are being called upon to rethink their strategies in the face of extreme weather events, tightening regulations and rising demand for sustainable solutions to reduce emissions. This includes accelerating the integration of green gases such as biomethane and hydrogen which will play a key role in the energy transition. These challenges add additional layers of complexity, making effective resource management and long-term planning both more critical and challenging than ever before.
In this context, companies must adopt a transformative approach to their core business, shifting toward models that leverage mature, cost-effective, and scalable technologies tailored to specific business needs in an agile and sustainable manner. Traditional asset management is no longer sufficient; a true paradigm shift is needed, data has become a critical asset, enabling a comprehensive view of operations and empowering informed decision-making in real time based
on accurate and timely insights. By embracing a data-driven strategy, organisations can become more adaptable, optimise resource use, and continuously identify opportunities
for improvement, ensuring more efficient and resilient management in an environment that is increasingly dynamic and unpredictable.
PEOPLE SAFETY
PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
INTERNAL
OPERATIONAL CONTINUITY
PROCESS OPTIMISATION
EXTERNAL TECHNOLOGICAL
Multiple local officiers
Aggressive urbanisation
Climate change constraints
Big data
Industry 4.0
Heterogeneous asset ages
Stricter regulations
New energy sources
Data platform
Advanced analisys (ML, AI...)
CONTEXT (CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES)
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To address the key findings described in the previous chapter and seize all present and future opportunities in line with the company's strategic priorities in operational activities- including safety, operational continuity, environmental protection, and process optimisation-Snam has defined and started implementing a significant technological roadmap to
evolve its industrial operations. This transformation has led to a fundamental shift in its core business approach, embracing models that leverage mature, cost-efficient, and rapidly deployable technologies tailored to meet Snam's specific business needs while responding to emerging challenges in an agile and sustainable manner.
Snam's high-level transformation visions have been tailored to reflect the specific characteristics and maturity of each industrial asset and operational process, with clearly defined pathways and objectives. All visions are anchored in a set
of shared principles that form the foundation of Snam's operational framework. These guiding elements include:
Integration and prioritisation of data to enhance industrial asset management
Intelligent, human-supervised assets that interact and deliver real-time insights
Automated network configurations designed to reduce energy consumption and emissions
Technological innovation supporting territorial oversight
Structured models to safeguard asset integrity
Risk-based approach to maintenance planning and lifecycle management
Full process digitalisation with a goal of eliminating paper-based workflows
Assets capable of transporting multiple types of energy carriers (hydrogen, biomethane, etc.)
Inspired by these visions, Snam has embarked on a journey of technological evolution for its operations, encompassing all aspects related to industrial assets, the processes that involve them, and the industrial applications that support them.
This evolution aims to accelerate the company's innovation capacity to build the energy system of the future, where data represents the cornerstone of advanced process know-how, and the implementation of new technologies enable more advanced and efficient interactions with assets. Moreover, this approach facilitates the collection and processing of a substantial volume of field data to support all operational activities.
This vision is brought to life through the SnamTEC methodology, which will be explored in the following chapters.
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3 OUR APPROACH TO THE EVOLUTION OF ASSETS AND PROCESSES
Since 2018, Snam has developed a strategic approach to evolve its assets and operational processes, implementing a data-driven methodology to obtain real-time data, introducing self-regulating assets and comprehensive monitoring capabilities. This approach fosters the development of an intelligent, self-regulating and optimised operating model that supports insightful decision-making.
For industrial assets, the approach focuses on measuring technological innovation through "smartness" indicators. This enables the identification and prioritisation of development initiatives to improve asset monitoring, self-regulation, and self-diagnostics.
For operational processes, the approach involves a detailed analysis of each operational and management activity, breaking it down
into its components to identify opportunities for digitalisation, automation, and optimisation. This analysis leads to a complete transformation of operational workflows into an integrated model supported by advanced analytical tools.
The transformative approach consists of four main phases, all driven by strong cooperation between operations and technology functions:
Structured, evidence-based assessment of asset intelligence levels and process digitalisation.
Identification of gaps relative to best-in-class monitoring, automation, and optimisation standards.
Definition of technological evolution initiatives, integrating advanced solutions such as smart objects, large-scale datasets, mathematical models, and simulation algorithms to drive continuous improvement of assets and processes.
Prioritisation of initiatives through use cases that evaluate the cost-benefit ratio and alignment with corporate strategy.
Scope of Analysis
Since 2018, the approach has systematically analysed assets, including compression and storage stations, reduction, regulation, and interception plants, as well as the regasification plant in Panigaglia. Regarding processes, the evaluation has focused on operational management, asset integrity monitoring, and continuous asset management. In the near future, this evaluation will be extended to all assets and operational processes.
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THE EVOLUTION PILLARS TRANSFORMING ASSETS AND OPERATIONS
Asset intelligence pillar
From an asset perspective, our transformative approach has defined a technological evolution roadmap towards "assets of the future," with key features outlined below:
Self-diagnostics and self-regulation:
Target:
Smart assets, capable of providing real-time operational data and health information, enabling remote monitoring and control, as well as new approaches to maintenance planning and execution (e.g., condition-based and predictive maintenance).
Furthermore, by leveraging emerging technologies, the asset of the future will be capable of self-monitoring and self-regulation directly in the field. It will support human
intervention by providing actionable insights based on process parameters derived from continuous collection and processing of field data.
State of the art:
Snam has launched several initiatives aimed at testing, validating, and implementing new field sensor technologies to enhance both the quantity and quality of data collected on asset health and performance. Currently, Telediagnostica monitors 67 turbochargers, 9 storage treatment plants, 3 experimental pipeline sections and 2 spot sites, as well as the Panigaglia regasification plant, collecting over 1.5 billion signals per day.
sA working group is defining the technical specifications of a future smart facility with self-monitoring and self-regulation capabilities. Currently, the typology of the reduction plant is under analysis, with plans to extend the study to all plant types in the coming years.
A digital modelling campaign of existing assets is underway to create 3D digital twins of physical assets. These digital twins will incorporate historical and real-time data throughout the asset lifecycle to support asset development and management. Additionally, they will facilitate simulations across the entire infrastructure to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.
Minimisation of environmental impact:
Target:
Near-zero emission assets, capable of minimising their environmental impact.
Reduction of energy consumption, through design solutions and operational logic, for example by recovering and reusing energy that would otherwise be lost in traditional gas processes.
State of the art:
Snam has been conducting asset replacement campaigns for several years, progressively replacing existing assets with next-generation, low- or zero-emission assets. These efforts will continue in the coming years and will significantly contribute to meeting Snam's emission reduction targets, in alignment with its decarbonisation and energy transition plan.
Snam has started the development and adoption of new technologies to support timely gas leak detection and prevention, which help reduce the environmental impact of assets and processes.
Working groups have been launched to study the current energy requirements across various types of facilities, aiming to identify solutions to reduce energy consumption. This includes the deployment of new dual-fuel compressor stations (powered by electricity and gas), with full operation targeted by the end of 2025.
Feasibility studies, experimental initiatives, and pilot projects are underway to explore new plant technologies capable of generating electricity, for example by harnessing the enthalpy drop in gas regulation lines. The recovered energy could be used to power the facility itself, significantly reducing its energy consumption.
Suitability for transporting new energy carriers:
Target:
Assets capable of safely transporting new low- or zero-environmental impact energy carriers (e.g., H₂, CO₂, biomethane, etc.);
Optimised management processes for the entire multi-carrier gas infrastructure.
State of the art:
Feasibility studies, experimental initiatives, and pilot projects have been ongoing for several years to assess the suitability of the current infrastructure for the safe and effective transport of new energy carriers. These studies have also identified necessary upgrades to enable their transport.
Furthermore, Snam has initiated the development of increasingly advanced transport infrastructure simulation tools and algorithms, integrating scenarios with new energy carriers, to minimise emissions and optimise energy consumption.
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Process pillars
Snam's approach has structured its evolution journey into the following key steps:
Transformation
Target:
Deployment of new ways of working and overseeing activities by leveraging process synergies thanks to real-time access
to end-to-end process data and views. This transformation is redefining operations and unlocks optimisation scenarios that were previously beyond the scope of conventional methodologies.
State of the art:
Snam is progressively transforming 100% of its operational processes, with over 40% already integrating advanced digital technologies in line with the company's technological roadmap.
DECISION SUPPORT
1E2E process integration, full traceability and monitoring of all activities and data centralisation from different sources
2Enhanced algorithms and models to support decision-making and operational processes
3New processes synergies and transformation opportunities enabled by integrated asset and process views
TRANSFORMATION
DIGITALISATION
FIGURE 2 - THE PROCESS EVOLUTION STEPS
Digitalisation
Target:
Digitalisation of all processes and activities, avoiding off-system management by centralising process data from various business sources and standardising data views for all stakeholders. This approach enhances operational efficiency and effectiveness, while enabling transparent integrated process management for all those involved.
State of the art:
Snam initiated a digitalisation process in the early 2000s with SAP and the first maintenance support systems. This evolution continued with Smart Gas, an initiative that led to the initial integration and digitalisation of O&M processes, while introducing the first technological tools in the field to support operators (e.g., tablet-accessible functionalities), the
integrated SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system, and new measurement systems. Since the early 2000s, 100% of core operational processes and over 85% of activities representing 3,000 activities across more than 100 operational processes have been digitalised. The remaining 15% of minor activities will be completed over the coming years.
Data-driven decision support
Target:
Transition to a data-driven management of operational and decision-making processes, by leveraging centralised data collected from digitalised activities.
Implementation of advanced analytical models and algorithms, maximising the value extracted from collected and processed data by providing users with alerts, recommendations, and pre-analysed solutions.
State of the art:
Snam has initiated the development of application solutions integrating advanced algorithms and AI models to support users in performing their operational activities. Several solutions are already in place, including algorithms for network leak detection and geolocation, simulation and optimisation models for network configuration, forecasting and scenario planning tools, as well as predictive maintenance models.
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THE SNAMTEC PROGRAMME
The approach outlined above is fully overseen by SnamTEC (Tomorrow's Energy Company), Snam's innovation and transformation programme, through which the company pursues its key objectives: ensuring people's safety, maintaining operational resilience, reducing environmental impact, and optimising processes. By aligning these objectives with the company's technological evolution roadmap, SnamTEC ensures a forward-looking, high impact transformation of industrial operations.
SnamTEC's founding pillars
SnamTEC's success is based on 3 main pillars:
Collective clearly-defined visions that engage people
A structure aligned with strategic areas of intervention
FIGURE 4 - SNAMTEC INITIATIVES OVERVIEW
CONTRUCTION & OM
GAS OPERATIONS
ASSET INTEGRITY
ASSET ENHANCEMENT
Integrate and prioritize
information for Asset & Energy
Management
Structured models
to ensure asset integrity
Intelligent assets, supervised by
humans, that interact with each other and provide information
Analysis and management of
maintenance cycles
Automated assets to minimize
consumption and emissions
Digitization of assets, data,
documents and processes to support decisions
Technological innovation for
territorial management
Assets capability to transport
different uids (hydrogen,
biomethane, …)
H2
FIGURE 3 - SNAMTEC'S VISIONS
Asset management
Maintenece model
Engineering & Construction
Physical
Remote control
Metering
Commercial gas operations
OLTRE
ACR
Operational planning
Pipeline integrity
Well integrity
Plant integrity
Energy efficiency and emission
New carriers and sector coupling
Asset innovation
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T.LAB projects
Projects Projects
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Leadership team
(CEO)
Top Level
company approval
TECH
GEST
ENGCOS
IMP
GNL
LNG
STG
Programme sponsor
(COO, CIO)
Joint Business IT sponsorship
HR BUAIT
Steering committee
DISPMI
COM
DECARB P&C BUAIT SUPC
DT&IN CORADEM
Dedicated senior structure
of programme manager
Programme manager
Company function reperesented in the Steering Committee
Change management
Corporate application integration to ACR
Organisational view
Technology platform for SnamTEC
Promo T.LAB
Joint business IT project management at operational level
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+28 projects
FIGURE 5 -SNAMTEC'S GOVERNANCE
Company-wide governance and engagement
The governance of SnamTEC projects is structured around corporate competencies and responsibilities, ensuring that activities align with corporate objectives and that potential improvements and evolution initiatives are continuously identified. It promotes close collaboration between business experts and technology specialists to connect innovation with business needs, driving a demand-driven digital transformation that is people-focused and results in tailor-made solutions.
The governance model involves all key functions related to industrial assets, with their respective leaders participating in monthly operational committees. These committees provide a platform to review major programme developments and track progress toward achieving objectives. This governance structure ensures effective management of complexity despite the wide range of transformative projects within the SnamTEC programme-each with its own scope, duration, scale, and management approach. . The programme is supported by a dedicated PMO team that oversees progress and ensures consistent communication across the organisation.
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SnamTEC's areas of intervention
Each of the four areas of intervention has a specific vision aligned with the company's strategic goals. All projects within the programme- both current and upcoming-contribute to these visions, leveraging their respective areas of expertise:
In this context, Snam has implemented the following key technologies, organised across the technology clusters and trends that were identified in our technological arena:
Construction & O&M
ATLANTE
The company's cartographic systems have evolved to incorporate new tools and processes to implement the BIM (Building Information Modelling) methodology, in compliance with deadlines set by the new public procurement code. The new platform will extend beyond
SLIM (Setting Limits)
SLIM leverages a machine-learning algorithm to automate the setting of alarm thresholds for flow rates at all reduction points along Snam's network. By analysing historical data, the algorithm proposes new limit values which the user can either accept or reject. If rejected, user feedback is incorporated into the model to refine future predictions for that specific point. Once the user is satisfied
Construction & O&M: This area focuses on transforming asset development and management processes, from feasibility, design, to maintenance and decommissioning. Key objectives include:
Optimising maintenance policies through risk-based, data-driven approaches
Integrating and correlating all asset lifecycle data within a unified digital model
Introducing new technological solutions to support field operations
Developing innovative solutions for project monitoring and management
Gas operations: This area aims to enhance physical and commercial dispatching, remote control, and volume&quality measurements. Key objectives include:
Optimising network configurations using advanced models and machine learning
Enhancing emergency management, with scenario analysis and real-time data access
Upgrading field measurement instrumentation to ensure higher accuracy
Introducing new functionalities and improved user experience to facilitate interactions with external stakeholders (e.g., customers)
Asset integrity: This area focuses on strengthening asset health monitoring and defining necessary interventions. Key objectives include:
Implementing remote monitoring for diagnostics and asset control
Applying risk-based models to support asset integrity decision-making
Adopting new technologies and tools for hydrogeological monitoring
Developing new models and algorithms to optimise pipeline control
Asset enhancement: This area drives innovation to maximise asset performance and sustainability. Key objectives include:
Enhancing asset intelligence with real-time field data collection technologies
Optimising energy consumption
Minimising environmental impact, particularly reducing emissions
Facilitating the energy transition through sector coupling and new energy carriers
A selection of SnamTEC projects are described in the following paragraphs, to illustrate Snam's evolution journey in each area of intervention.
2D representations, introducing 3D visualisation of assets enriched with historical and real-time data across the entire asset lifecycle. These enhancements will be integrated into the territorial context, enabling more advanced and efficient asset management.
Engineering & Construction Enhancement
As part of its efforts to drive innovation in the Engineering & construction sector, Snam has implemented a suite of specialised solutions to digitalise processes, including:
Digitalising processes that were previously manual or managed outside existing systems
Enabling end-to-end process management in line with the transformation roadmap
Improving collaboration and information exchange across the entire project lifecycle, engaging all relevant stakeholders
Delivering a unified, intuitive, and role-specific user experience
Standardising processes and harmonising operational practices
To date, these efforts have focused on:
Processes and systems for investment project management
Development of advanced technological tools for construction sites
Digitalisation of permitting procedures
Gas operations Intelligent Disp
The Intelligent DISP initiative is the cornerstone of the "Dispatching system of the future", designed to manage the gas network & storage system in a fully integrated and optimised manner. The solution leverages artificial intelligence and advanced mapping technologies to acquire, store, process, and distribute real-time operational data, alarms, and key parameters across the entire
gas value chain (e.g., nominations, operational data, technical and commercial constraints, etc.).
The system is capable of proposing optimised operational scenarios, corrective actions in response to anomalies, alternative scenarios for emergency interventions, as well as forecasts for gas redelivery and fuel-gas consumption. More broadly, Intelligent DISP serves
as a decision-support tool for operators, and under predefined conditions, can operate autonomously.
The solution also features a dynamic, operator-centric interface, adapting to various needs and providing an advanced communication interface for seamless user engagement.
with the algorithm's performance at a given location, they can activate automatic operation: SLIM will then autonomously apply the calculated threshold directly to the monitoring point.
SLIM has significantly increased the gas system's operational efficiency by delivering more accurate and timely alarm thresholds, not only over a seasonal period, but also on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Additionally, the solution has reduced response times to system anomalies.
FORG (Forecasting Fuel Gas) project
FORG provides users with medium- to long-term forecasts of fuel gas consumption across Snam's 13 compression stations. Using historical data and structured input files, the tool applies machine learning algorithms to generate daily, weekly, monthly and annual forecasts through scheduled batch processing. FORG also supports custom scenario modelling, enabling users to simulate fuel gas
consumption up to 20-30 years into the future, thereby analysing the impact of potential long-term uncertainties on compression station consumption.
Static Reservoirs Project
The Static Reservoirs project supports the digital transformation of gas reserve management communications related to reference parameters and configurations at storage sites. More specifically, the solution has digitalised and automated the calculation of static pressure values at the well level. By applying machine learning algorithms, the system analyses historical static pressure data, configured parameters and field conditions to determine optimal static pressure values for each individual or grouped well injection point.
A key functionality of the system is the ability to pre-process data from all concessions, building a standardised data pool and developing a robust model taking into account various storage
field conditions. The model detects valve operations and correlates static pressures with dynamic pressure data, gas reserve levels, and injection/withdrawal flow rates. The introduction of machine learning models has provided several advantages:
Data-driven decision-making: Large volumes of historical and
real-time data are analysed to recommend optimal static pressure values.
Improved accuracy: Algorithms minimise human error by deciphering complex patterns and relationships that are not easily identifiable through manual analysis.
Operational optimisation: By providing ideal static values, the algorithms optimise gas flow management, improving alignment
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with physical and operational constraints.
Risk mitigation: The use of advanced analytical calculations rapidly identifies potential anomalies or inefficiencies, reducing safety risks and operational disruptions.
Energy optimisation of compression network setups
This project focuses on the testing and industrialisation of an optimisation tool for compression stations, providing users with an application-based solution to monitor gas transportation system operations. The tool aims to minimise fuel gas consumption and related CO₂ emissions over a 24-hour horizon.
Optimised operation is achieved via a Mixed Integer Linear Programming model, where network constraints and operational compressor maps are linearised to define an optimal search space for fuel gas minimisation. Over the coming years, this solution will be continuously enhanced with new functionalities, including management of electrocompressors and dual-fuel compression
stations, enabling dispatching operators to further optimise system operations, keeping up with the evolving infrastructure.
Macchina Unica
Macchina Unica (MU) is an innovative device designed to simplify industrial process management, combining Operational
Technology (OT) and SCADA functionalities into a single device. This integration reduces the number of field devices, thereby optimising management and maintenance activities.
The MU device introduces several key innovations, including advanced monitoring, remote control of valve operations, and diagnostics capabilities, thanks to its ability to collect and transmit real-time data from distributed sensors and receive data from control centres.
With its cutting-edge technology, Macchina Unica is a revolutionary, highly secure solution, designed to adapt to the future needs of industrial plants.
SUMMER
The SUMMER project aims to consolidate all tools related to measurement data management into a single integrated digital workspace. Built on innovative architectures that facilitate data sharing both internally and externally with plant owners, the SUMMER application supports the full range of technical activities related to the collection, processing, validation, and availability of data, ensuring the highest level of accuracy for measurement data used in commercial transportation transactions.
Other key features include:
Design compliance checks of third-party measurement plants with current technical regulations.
Processing, verification, and validation of measurement data, ensuring correct distribution to users and plant owners.
A dedicated online portal for plant owners, in compliance with Resolution 512, to register and manage plants based on minimum and optimal infrastructure, performance, and maintenance requirements.
UNICO
This initiative centralises customer data and supports their operations and interactions with Snam. The core focus is to enhance user experience by creating a seamless integrated system that optimises activities, relationships, and information exchanges.
For example, during the connection process, all necessary elements have been developed to guide customers through a clear and seamless experience when requesting a new connection.
Dedicated functionalities allow end users to request preliminary information on connection feasibility, submit and formalise their connection request and track the progress of the entire implementation phase (management, document exchange, and monitoring).
Asset integrity
Evolution of technological support in hydrogeology
The project focuses on the testing and implementation of technologies and innovative solutions, such as InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) and drones, to support activities related to slow ground movement detection, seismic event management, and third-party interference control.
A key outcome of the project is the development of the "Geologist's User Journey", an advanced application designed to support
Snam's geology team in optimising the assessment and planning of monitoring activities across the transport network. Through the analysis of satellite data, the platform enables risk-based prioritisation of interventions by integrating information from multiple sources (PS/DS from GeoApp, Risk Polygons from TRE ALTAMIRA, as well as Snam's network and infrastructure data).
Core functionalities include:
Mapping and analysis of geologically at-risk areas,
Tracking time spent on field inspections,
KPI-based monitoring analytics,
Service request management.
The solution also facilitates document access and data sharing of ALOS and ALOS2 satellite imagery, with external suppliers significantly improving operational efficiency and geological fieldwork management.
Remote Diagnostics
The Remote Diagnostics initiative focuses on real-time monitoring of various types of plants, enabling live visualisation and historical data storage to provide a comprehensive view of plant operations. This tool has established a solid database for generating advanced diagnostic indices, allowing a transition from scheduled cyclic maintenance to preventive maintenance based on actual plant conditions.
More specifically, Remote Diagnostics has been developed to monitor:
Gas compression processes, with a particular focus on compression machinery (turbo compressors) and their accessory circuits, in 21 out of 22 compression and storage stations.
Gas treatment processes, focusing on the various plant components (dehydration columns, cold cycle circuits, LTS), in 9 out of 9 storage stations.
LNG storage and regasification processes, focusing on vaporisation equipment and boil-off gas management (recondensation or direct reinjection into the pipeline).
The development of a general monitoring tool has helped to deepen and disseminate plant know-how within the company, ensuring continuous and unified remote access to updated data, despite differences between sites.
The availability of this data has led to the definition of specific performance indicators for various plant components, enabling the early detection of anomalies or malfunctions. This proactive approach has helped reduce both the time and cost of unplanned maintenance activities.
In the future, the project will extend remote diagnostics monitoring to all remaining plant types (e.g., OLT, FSRU), including energy consumption monitoring.
Smart PE
The SMART PE project has led to an evolution in cathodic protection, both in terms of technology and process design, in response to evolving international standards.
The project involved a comprehensive overhaul of the cathodic protection process and its supporting applications, along with the installation of next-generation cathodic protection equipment, such as electrodes with coupons and remote monitoring devices, completed in 2022.
By the end of 2023, approximately 1,600 cathodic protection power supplies were installed at critical points in the network, and around 200 Cathodic Protection Systems (CPS) were calibrated through electrical testing in compliance with ISO 15589-1 standards.
PIMOS
An advanced machine learning system has been developed to analyse pressure data and predict potential methane pipeline leaks. By integrating data from distributed sensors, it distinguishes normal fluctuations from anomalies, accurately identifying and geolocating high-risk areas-20 times more accurately than the previous baseline. Alerts are immediately sent to control room operators, who then coordinate field interventions.
The PIMOS initiative emerged from a bottom-up approach, originating from the intuition of an operations technician in 2017. Following a feasibility study and a pilot phase, Snam began installation, configuration, and testing in 2021. By 2023, PIMOS was fully deployed across the national gas network. Snam is now developing additional functionalities related to network losses, including Pipeline Inspection Gauge (PIG) passages, central and reduction plant blocks/stops, and operational manoeuvres. This
initiative exemplifies the power of internal innovation, demonstrating how frontline expertise can drive ground-breaking progress in asset integrity monitoring.
Asset enhancement Smart Pipe
The Smart Pipe initiative involves the installation of experimental sensors at sites distributed along the gas pipelines to enable realtime monitoring and historical recording of non-operational data from the field, including:
Environmental conditions of the site,
Electricity consumption data of field equipment,
Site safety and protection data.
This system provides remote monitoring of conditions across various sites, supporting early identification of field intervention needs and long-term parameter tracking via a centralised Network Remote Diagnostics platform.
Smart Plant
The Smart Plant initiative involves the installation of experimental sensors at selected pilot stations for real-time monitoring and longterm recording of new variables, such as:
Vibration parameters and power consumption of specific pumps and motors,
Pressure and temperature variables measured with smart sensors enriched with diagnostic functionalities, replacing offline sensors or adding new measurement points along the pipeline.
This tool significantly increases the amount and quality of data available for treatment plant diagnostics. It integrates seamlessly with the Treatment Plant Remote Diagnostics system, where it extends both the scope and accuracy of available monitoring data.
Adsorbed natural gas
This project, developed in partnership with ENI, focuses on the study and testing of Adsorbent Natural Gas (ANG) technology to enhance storage efficiency compared to standard gas tanks.
The ANG system could be exploited to recover gas prior to network maintenance operations (tie-ins), significantly reducing gas dissemination into the environment during these activities.
In the future, additional applications may be considered, including:
ANG use in gas cylinder trailers and compression/storage stations,
Reducing energy consumption for recompression,
Increasing storage capacity of tube trailers during maintenance.
H₂ Readiness
To prepare Snam's existing gas infrastructure for hydrogen transport, guidelines have been drafted to assess the current system's suitability while evaluating its impact on processes, regulations, and IT systems. Additionally, Snam is conducting studies and experimental trials with hydrogen at increasing concentration levels, focusing on
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turbines, centrifugal compressors, and storage facilities. Furthermore, Snam actively participates in working groups and experimental initiatives to shape future technical regulations for hydrogen transport, covering both existing and newly constructed pipelines.
CO₂ Readiness
To repurpose Snam's existing transport infrastructure for future conversion to CO₂ transport, necessary retrofitting activities must be carried out in compliance with current regulations. To guide this
process, international standards such as ISO 27913 and DNV-RP-F104 have been adopted, setting requirements for CO₂ transport and providing specifications beyond general transportation standards.
In 2024, Snam began drafting a new technical regulation for CO₂ transport, scheduled for publication in 2025. Additionally, Snam, in a joint venture with ENI, is actively developing the Ravenna CCS Project, which successfully completed its first CO₂ injection into a storage reservoir in August 2024.
Enabling industrial technologies within SnamTEC
A fundamental pillar of Snam's transformation journey is the role of industrial technologies as enablers of an innovative and
transformative corporate vision. These technologies are essential for creating synergies between processes and systems within SnamTEC, empowering the company to address current challenges while preparing for future ones. By adopting advanced solutions that are carefully selected based on business needs, Snam ensures scalability, operational efficiency, sustainability, and adaptability.
In this context, Snam has implemented the following key technologies, organised across the technology clusters and trends that were identified in our technological arena:
Smart asset
Immersive reality technologies
Digital models: Introduced as opportunities within the BIM methodology, supporting the evolution of asset design, management, and operation.
Smart devices
Intelligent devices: Tested and validated by Snam through relevant use cases to enhance the reliability of field operations via automation and real-time monitoring;
Asset integrity instrumentation: Adoption of new tools to collect and process data related to extreme events that could impact Snam's infrastructure (e.g., landslides, seismic events, floods, tidal waves...);
OT field devices (e.g., Macchina Unica, edge OT): New field devices to collect and transmit data in real time, enabling advanced remote asset management.
Advanced engineering
FIGURE 6 - INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN SNAMTEC
Space technology
Satellites: Collection and processing of satellite imagery to support hydrogeological monitoring and territory oversight;
Drones: Deployment of drones equipped with specialised instrumentation for pipeline surveillance, hydrogeological monitoring and methane leak detection.
Sustainable engineering
DRONES
SATELLITES
No/Low-emission equipment (LDAR, Adsorbed Natural Gas, …): Next-generation equipment, procedures and plant solutions designed to minimise environmental impact and support decarbonisation.
Energy infrastructure
H₂ + CO₂ infrastructure
H₂ and CO₂- ready materials & equipment: Adoption of new materials and technologies to safely transport new energy carriers.
Additional application paradigms within SnamTEC focuses on the development of solutions based on emerging technologies (e.g., IoT, micro-front-end, cloud-based solutions) to provide users with easier access to data and functionalities (via ACR, section 3.6).
AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) DEVICES
SMART FIELD DEVICES
CHAPTER 01
CHAPTER 02
CHAPTER 03
CHAPTER 04
CHAPTER 05
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6
T.LAB
4
Areas
14
Experimentations
Construction & O&M
Gas operations
Asset integrity
Asset enhancemet
Business bridge
Remote connection
Marine weather monitoring
Generative AI in support of SnamTEC
Hands free worker
Long distance drone overflights
Easy Locker
AI application for routing pipeline
GeoGuard
Biodiversity
GMATICS
Methane detector
Zero emission valves
Smart infrastructure monitoring
AS OF APRIL 2025
FIGURE 7 - OVERVIEW OF T.LAB EXPERIMENTATIONS
For the past five years, Snam has been operating T.LAB, a laboratory dedicated to the explorative testing of emerging technologies and innovative solutions to upgrade assets and processes. Its primary goal is to assess their alignment with corporate and programme objectives to support potential adoption.
A structured process has been established within T.LAB to manage the lifecycle of potential new technological solutions, divided into the following key phases:
Prioritisation: Innovative ideas addressing asset and process evolution needs are assessed and categorised based on their alignment with SnamTEC's vision. The business impact, expected benefits, and preliminary time and cost estimates are determined. A custom Snam "Scoring model" selects high-potential solutions, considering the technology's maturity level.
Field Testing: The selected technology is tested in real-world conditions to evaluate feasibility and suitability for Snam's operational context, as well as any potential adoption challenges.
Evaluation: Solutions are assessed based on technological maturity and business impact. Possible outcomes include:
Archiving (if unsatisfactory)
Continuous monitoring (if promising but immature)
Integration into the SnamTEC programme (for company-wide implementation).
Thus, T.LAB acts as a catalyst for experimentation, continuously supporting and enriching the development stream of SnamTEC projects. T.LAB is currently conducting experiments on a wide range of innovative technologies applied to various domains:
Tools and algorithms to facilitate field operations (Business bridge, Hands-free worker, G-Locker, Methane detector, Zero-emission valves)
Satellite imaging and algorithms for improved infrastructure project planning (Gmatics and AI for pipeline routing)
Innovative technologies for territory and hydrogeological monitoring (Drone overflight, GeoGuard, Marine weather monitoring)
Representative experimentations in T.LAB include:
Methane detector: Engineering a hyperspectral camera for the detection and precise quantification of gas leaks at industrial scale. The proposed solution under development is expected to enhance methane leak management through real-time, high-resolution mapping of the affected areas.
Marine weather monitoring: Establishing a marine weather observatory at Panigaglia LNG and Ravenna FSRU, integrating advanced sensors and weather forecast analytics. This system will streamline management of ship operations, increasing safety, optimising planning activities, and guiding decision-making based on real-time weather and maritime forecasts.
Zero-emission valves: Developing remotely controllable, zero-emission pilot-operated reduction valves, without requiring replacements. The solution includes both retrofitting the existing valves and the installation of new ones.
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7 ASSET CONTROL ROOM
The Asset Control Room (ACR) is a cutting-edge platform that harnesses innovative technologies to meet business needs, bringing SnamTEC's vision to life for all end-users while driving transformation of operational processes. Its goal is to support users, guiding them step by step in managing and operating assets throughout their entire lifecycle.
SnamTEC's guiding principles for the ACR include:
A simplified, unified user experience, focused on processes rather than siloed applications
A single source of certified, accessible data for all business functions
The ability to perform advanced data correlations to support decision-making
Remote asset management
End-to-end visibility of increasingly integrated processes (covering 47 end-to-end processes)
Access to advanced models to continuously optimise processes and activities
Streamlined analysis and communication among stakeholders involved in the same process
Ability to manage complexity of a multi-energy carrier system
The Asset Control Room enables data-driven execution of operational activities, providing real-time control and monitoring of activities and assets. By integrating advanced tools and technologies, it fosters innovation and creates new opportunities through risk-based and predictive simulation models.
Designed with a strong focus on User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI), ACR delivers a simple, intuitive, and user-centred digital experience.
The Asset Control Room comprises five integrated components designed to optimise asset management and transform operations at Snam:
The Data platform & governance treats data as a strategic asset, ensuring structured federated management, active governance, and on-demand analytics
The Document platform & governance organises documents as digital entities, facilitating access, storage, and lifecycle management
The Hall supports user onboarding, with an intuitive, process-driven experience and a customisable homepage, accessible across all electronic devices
The Walls provide integrated, end-to-end process views, enabling effective activity monitoring and management
The Digital asset model offers a continuously updated digital twin of corporate assets, consolidating master, process, maintenance, and operational data and documents, ensuring alignment with field conditions in real-time
FIGURE 8 - ACR COMPONENTS OVERVIEW
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The following sections outline each component of the Asset Control Room in greater detail.
Data platform & governance: Managing data as an asset
In the development of the Asset Control Room- designed to enable advanced, guided, and data-driven process management-data takes on a strategic role, requiring the same level of governance, maintenance and management as any other corporate asset.
To this end, the Data platform of the ACR serves as a shared solution to collect, consolidate, and provide
access for all stakeholders to informational assets and know-how currently dispersed across applications and corporate functions.
Within the ACR, data is managed under the "data as a product" paradigm, recognising its intrinsic business value beyond its technological function. The platform collects only relevant data, organising it into clearly defined business domains (e.g., Asset, Dispatching, Measurement…) and assigning ownership roles to ensure data consistency and quality. Each dataset
is described through operational attributes such as temperature, update frequency, historical availability, and confidentiality.
The Data platform is structured around three core aspects:
Domain-driven architecture: The Data platform is designed as a federated model that empowers individual domains and subdomains. Instead of
a single working group, multiple teams operate independently supported by the same framework.
Data governance: Business users play a central role in data management, leveraging their expertise to ensure accuracy, relevance and quality of the data.
Asset management room
Asset and activity monitoring and control
Activity planning
Construction, monitoring and control
Resource optimisation
Resource management
Asset and activity performance measurement
On field esecution
WALL
Decision making support
Indicator setting & management monitoring
Model & algorithms
Model performance control
Innovation Lab
Energy management room
Energy dispatcing
Alarm management & monitoring Forecasting
Simulations & scenarios Infrastructure management Customer services
Back office center
DIGITAL ASSET MODEL
HALL
Digital model
Data model Data population
Geometrical modelling
DATA & DOCUMENT PLATFORM & GOVERNANCE
CAHNGE ENGAGEMENT
On-demand analytics: Through the Data Marketplace, users can independently search, view, and request access to data sets. They can also edit data and, if needed, publish updated versions via the Data Knowledge Centre.
All technical and business metadata are consolidated within the Data Catalogue, making it possible to associate technological assets with their corresponding business descriptions.
Processes, responsability and rules
Advanced data & document management platform
Data catalog
Data ingestion
Asset lifecycle management Industry data model
Data usage
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FIGURE 9 - DATA PLATFORM
7.3 ACR Hall: User onboarding
The ACR Hall encompasses the functionalities and capabilities that facilitate user onboarding and streamline content interaction within ACR. It offers a personalised intuitive experience, transforming the user from a passive viewer into an active participant, with each interaction guided and optimised. Onboarding is a crucial aspect of this process, introducing the user to the ACR environment through a clear, step-by-step guide. It highlights key features, and allows customisation based on user preferences.
The Hall also includes several cross-functional features shared across the ACR ecosystem:
Homepage: A customisable landing interface that hosts graphical elements called widgets to directly access relevant data and functionalities. Users can self-configure the homepage or apply predefined templates aligned with the user's profile and business role;
Waffle Menu: A navigational component that provides intuitive access to all Walls, business applications, and related processes, tailored to the user's role;
Notification Centre: An application that manages user notifications of various types (push, socket, emails, etc.) and which can be configured to target specific users, groups, or distribution lists.
FIGURE 10 - ACR HALL
Document platform & governance: Transforming documents into digital entities
The Document Platform is an additional component of the ACR framework, complementing the Data platform by aggregating all unstructured information essential for managing the entire asset lifecycle and operational activities.
In this context, a document is defined as a digital entity that records, stores, and communicates unstructured information. In line with Snam's transformation roadmap, the Document platform supports the following objectives:
Enriches the asset lifecycle information ecosystem, making it accessible to users based on their role and domain;
Enhances access and management of documents throughout their lifecycle, providing an "asset-centric" view;
Establishes a centralised document governance framework with clearly defined roles, responsibilities and processes.
Beyond simple digital archiving, the platform is supported by a set of policies, procedures, and technologies defining document creation, usage, storage, and disposal. The new Document governance framework will deliver the following benefits:
Standardised policies for document access, storage, archiving, quality, management, and export;
Clear allocation of responsibilities and transparent interactions across involved stakeholders;
Process streamlining, reduced search times, and improved support for data-driven decision-making.
ACR Walls: Integrated, end-to-end process views
ACR Walls consist of a set of process-specific advanced functionalities, supporting the user in their operational tasks. Each Wall provides consolidated views of key activities, KPIs and business objectives, allowing users to manage end-to-end processes from a single, integrated environment. The design and organisation of the Walls ensure full visibility of process interdependencies, eliminating the need to navigate across disparate business applications. By understanding the impact of each action across all related processes, users can unlock new process synergies and optimisation opportunities that were previously unattainable.
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FIGURE 11 - ACR WALLS
Beyond digitalisation - a hybrid space for innovation
Snam envisions a future where full digitalisation and information-driven decision-making, powered by advanced algorithms (AI/agents), shape the company's transformation; However, it also recognises the critical role of physical spaces in bringing ideas to life, supporting experimentation, and fostering collaboration. To bridge the digital and physical worlds, Snam has created a hybrid space where teams can test new functionalities, explore emerging opportunities, share experiences, generate new ideas, and receive business-driven training using innovative tools. The goal is to create a dynamic collaborative environment, fostering a sense of belonging and motivation where teams challenge assumptions, exchange ideas and push the boundaries of company innovation.
This physical space is evolving from an inspiration hub for sharing new ideas, into an integrated environment that offers a 360° digital and physical experience. By designing new thematic areas, the space will be divided into several functional environments, including:
a Collaboration Hub: a space for team alignment, experience sharing, and functionality testing;
an Advanced Training Room: a training space equipped with ACR technologies, supporting learning processes aligned with strategic visions and process guidelines;
a Virtual Reality Room: an immersive environment to develop and test virtual technologies, where simulation contributes to innovation;
an Innovative Instrumentation Lab: a space focused on designing, developing, and testing field devices to enhance asset intelligence (e.g., smart devices, unified machines, ground movement monitoring sensors);
a Data Playground: a dedicated area for data analysis and simulation, allowing multiple users to collaborate, analyse data, simulate scenarios, and make data-driven decisions.
Digital Asset Model: The Digital Twin of corporate assets
As part of Snam's digital transformation, digital models of existing assets have been developed using the BIM methodology. These models offer accurate three-dimensional representations of plants and their components, enriched with registry, process, and maintenance data.
By integrating these models into the ACR and associating each component with relevant information, Snam has created advanced digital twins that centralise asset data. This approach ensures simple intuitive access, regular updates and eliminates data dispersion across Snam's assets.
FIGURE 12 - DIGITAL ASSET MODEL
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8
OLTRE
SnamTEC has initiated a process of evolution and innovation within operations. Thanks to ACR, these advancements are accessible to all, transforming activities and workflows through simplification and digitalisation.
In this context, OLTRE represents "what's next", the compass of future innovations applied to industrial operations. It is an Open Innovation framework providing the principles and directions to guide Snam's transformation towards excellence, generating new ideas and new projects that feed into the SnamTEC programme and enhance ACR functionalities. In other words, OLTRE powers the next transformation cycle of the SnamTEC programme.
From vision to reality
Snam's technological transformation journey continues as ongoing projects progress toward achieving the company's vision, shaped by two defined evolutionary pathways. The future of Snam's operations will be marked by a fundamental shift in how work is performed, through increasingly intelligent assets that generate and share data to support and guide processes across their entire lifecycle.
Snam aims to process real-time, higher resolution data to support more informed, timely decisions. Snam's users will interact with digital replicas of assets, comprehensive models containing centralised, integrated, and correlated lifecycle data. These digital twins will serve as the foundation for advanced simulation and analytics models for process optimisation. This evolution in technology and data use will pave the way for more autonomous and self-regulating asset and network operations.
The SnamTEC programme continues to expand the capabilities of the Asset Control Room, equipping it with new tools to support users in their day-to-day activities. This will create a single integrated digital workspace where information is no longer searched for, but readily available, tailored to each user's needs.
To ensure this transformation maintains its momentum, the gradual implementation of OLTRE will be of vital importance. As a framework for continuous innovation, OLTRE will drive the generation of new ideas, feed the SnamTEC pipeline, and further evolve the functionalities of the Asset Control Room, keeping Snam at the forefront of operational excellence.
Inspiration for future excellence
Snam's innovation program to ensure its leadership as an energy operator
Continuous processes transformation, generating new projects for SnamTEC
Digital environment that makes Snam-TEC innovation available for users
Continuous generation of transformative ideas
Governance methodology for proven innovation projects
New technological support for operational processes
ACR
SNAMTEC PROJECTS
OLTRE
FIGURE 13 - SNAMTEC, ACR AND OLTRE
Transformation is thus powered by constant innovation, leveraging the potential of new technologies to amplify the SnamTEC programme and propel it toward increasingly ambitious horizons, triggering a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement and evolution.
OLTRE is a structured innovation framework built on five fundamental pillars, each working in synergy to shape Snam's long-term transformation journey and support our company in meeting future challenges: Energy Excellence serves as the guiding framework for excellence; the Intangible Network represents the company's informational assets; Verso is a secure gateway to external insights; the Engine is the catalyst of transformative ideas; and the Monitor is the intelligent user interface.
These five pillars are further detailed in the following sections.
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Snam Engine
DATA PLATFORM
DOCUMENT PLATFORM
DIGITAL ASSET MODEL
Snam Intangible Network
SnamVerso
Snam Monitor
Snam Energy Excellence
FIGURE 14 - OLTRE'S PILLARS
Snam Verso: the secure gateway to the outside world
Snam Verso is the OLTRE component dedicated to accessing and integrating external informational assets, harnessing their potential to power the generation of transformative ideas, including those inspired by external trends beyond the company. Snam Verso will define rules, procedures, and tools for regularly consulting external sources or activating them in response to specific events (such
as regulatory updates). To ensure the security and reliability of collected information, this component will rely on source evaluation mechanisms, such as feedback systems and validated external source rankings. Once acquired and validated, the external data
is formalised and shared across the organisation, enriching the corporate knowledge base and reinforcing the continuous evolution of business processes.
Snam Engine: the engine that continuously generates new transformative solutions
Snam Engine is the innovation catalyst. Generating transformative ideas for operational processes and corporate regulations, it integrates new technologies (including AI/agents) with Snam's strategic vision and promotes excellence. It identifies key strategic questions, and develops high-value proposals by combining:
Corporate guidelines, know-how and experience
Structured information assets
Market trend and external insights
Snam Monitor: the intelligent user interface
The Snam Monitor is a data driven, interactive interface that processes and synthesises insights generated by the Snam Engine.
As the user's main point of access, it brings the entire transformation journey into one cohesive space, supporting interaction, optimisation, monitoring and management of proposed solutions.
Thanks to its powerful data processing and synthesis capabilities, the Snam Monitor transforms the information received from the Engine into clear and intuitive visualisations. This not only simplifies data complexity but also enables users to explore proposals in depth, evaluate their potential and understand broader implications. It encourages collaboration and creativity, while tracking the full transformation process from initial idea to implemented solution.
Core features of the Monitor:
Clarity and simplicity: Designed for ease of use, with intuitive layouts, user-friendly interactions, and seamless navigation.
Prioritisation and organisation: Helps users stay focused on what matters the most by structuring information hierarchically and presenting it clearly.
Comprehensive support: Guides users through each phase of the transformation roadmap, with all necessary functionalities and insights
Responsiveness and adaptability: Adapts to user needs, responding promptly to inquiries and providing relevant solutions, while allowing customisation to fit various roles and preferences.
Snam Energy Excellence: the excellence model
This guiding framework provides a comprehensive digital representation of operational processes, assets and technical expertise. It defines objectives, tracks performance through specific KPIs/KPOs, identifies areas for improvement and offers transformative insights.
These structured and digitalised components of the framework make it possible to:
Deliver a comprehensive representation of operational processes and their unique characteristics;
Uncover new opportunities for process improvement through continuous monitoring of related KPIs and KPOs, supporting a path toward excellence;
Steer the search for meaningful, high-impact innovation by producing transformative ideas tailored to Snam's needs and context.
Snam Intangible Network: the company's information asset
The Snam Intangible Network encompasses Snam's informational heritage and corporate knowledge as captured and structured within the Asset Control Room: assets, data, processes, and regulations. All digitalised information generated by SnamTEC projects within ACR is made available to OLTRE, where it is leveraged as transformative insights to refine and evolve both operational processes and ACR itself. The main sources feeding this network include the Data Platform, Document Platform, and Digital Models. It ensures structured, accessible and actionable management of corporate know-how for all stakeholders.
This integrated approach enables the Snam Engine not only to process data but also to enrich it with Snam's in-depth knowledge and strategic vision. It explores the organisational context, learns how the business operates, and identifies innovative solutions
to enhance and strengthen processes, thereby generating new transformative ideas that sustain a continuous cycle of progress.
By combining the know-how, experience, and strategic goals defined by Snam Energy Excellence, the informational assets housed in the Snam Intangible Network and the insights from emerging market trends gathered through Snam Verso, the Snam Engine identifies the critical questions needed to unlock the full potential of available data. This results in targeted high-value propositions for Snam.
Scalable and continuously evolving, the Engine adapts to change while leveraging its intrinsic capacity for self-improvement, ensuring processes remain effective, resilient and aligned with the highest standards.
The next chapter (6 - Integrated Masterplan) outlines the next phases of our evolution journey-which includes SnamTEC, ACR, and OLTRE. With the activation of OLTRE, the continuous improvement process will reach its full potential, characterised by the virtuous and iterative generation of new transformative ideas and projects in pursuit of excellence.
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9 THE INTEGRATED MASTERPLAN: SHAPING ASSET AND PROCESS EVOLUTION THROUGH THE 2030S
Snam has a clear and ambitious vision for the transformation of its industrial assets and processes in the coming years: the Integrated Masterplan serves as a structured and progressive roadmap, unfolding over five overlapping periods:
Implementation of ACR and digital transformation of processes (2019-2029)
This phase focuses on fully implementing ACR as the company's global integrated platform for monitoring, controlling, and optimising industrial assets. The progressive transformation of all processes will unlock the full benefits of our technological evolution strategy, reduce asset management complexity, improve responsiveness in anomaly prevention, and ultimately optimise the entire asset lifecycle.
This transformation will also extend across the entire Group, accelerating corporate process digitalisation, with the implementation of a corporate data platform, and enabling other businesses of the Group to adopt SnamTEC's tested technologies and approaches.
Modelling and Digitalisation of existing industrial assets (2023-2029)
This phase advances asset intelligence and contributes to building the Snam Energy Excellence. By creating a digital twin of Snam's infrastructure, integrating all asset lifecycle data and documents, the company will shift to a fully data-driven operating model, enhancing planning, maintenance, and infrastructure management capabilities, while shifting from reactive to predictive and proactive operations.
Implementation of the Document Platform (2024-2027) and continuous evolution of the Data Platform
To fully transform operational processes, the development of advanced data and document management platforms will be essential. This will include the adoption of new rules, procedures, and digital workflows to ensure seamless integration. Easy access to structured data and documents will enhance the advanced tools and functionalities available within the ACR ecosystem.
Development and implementation of OLTRE (2024-2032)
OLTRE will become a key framework for Snam's core innovation strategy, designed to drive continuous improvement by generating system-wide transformative ideas.
Activation of a continuous improvement cycle (2032-2040+)
The final phase aims to establish a long-term cycle of iterative innovation, fostering ongoing adaptability to technological and regulatory changes. This perpetual transformation process will strengthen Snam's long-term competitiveness.
Acknowledgements
This Innovation Plan is the result of a collective internal effort at Snam, made possible thanks to the valuable contribution of the many teams dedicated to innovation across the company.
This work has further benefited from valuable insights and feedback of leading experts in innovation management, both at national and international level. We wish to extend our sincere thanks to Professor Donatella Sciuto, Rector of Politecnico di Milano; Professor Gianmario Verona, former Rector of Bocconi University; Alberto Onetti, founder of Mind the Bridge; Enrico Noseda, Chief Innovation Officer at Cariplo Factory; Xavier Marcet, President of Lead to Change; Professor Giorgio Metta from the Italian Institute of Technology, and the team from CDP Corporate Venture Capital SGR.
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