Eni controls over 80 percent of Italys domestic Natural Gas production, with the company reporting that it produced 350.5 Bcf in 2005. Important offshore natural gas fields operated by Eni include include Barbera, Porto Garibaldi/Agostino, Angela/Angelina, Cervia/Arianna, Porto Corsini, Mare Ovest, and Luna. The company is currently developing the onshore Pizzo Tamburino, Fiumetto, and Samperi fields in Sicily.
Italy has the third-largest natural gas transmission system in Europe. According to Snam, the system consists of 19,000 miles of pipelines carrying over 2.7 Tcf of natural gas per year. Italian law guarantees open and nondiscriminatory access to the system.
Most of Italys natural gas imports enter the country through international pipelines. The 670-mile Trans-Mediterranean (Transmed, also called Enrico Mattei) line runs from the Hassi RMel gas field in Algeria to Sicily, via Tunisia, where it interfaces with the domestic gas network. Completed in 1983 and doubled in 1994, Transmed has a capacity of 2.33 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). There are plans to construct an additional compressor station along the Transmed that could increase capacity to 3.48 Bcf/d. The Trans-European Pipeline (TENP) and the Transitgas pipeline bring natural gas from northern Europe (mostly the Netherlands and Norway) into Italy, entering the country at the Passo Gries transit point near Milan. Italy imports natural gas from Russia at two entry points: via the Trans-Austrian Gas Pipeline (TAG) at Tarvisio, and via Slovenia at Gorizia.