Imports of LNG constitute a very small portion of Italy's total Natural Gas imports. The country has a single LNG receiving terminal at Panigaglia, located on the country's western coast near La Spezia. According to Snam, the terminal's Operator, the Panigaglia facility produced 190 Mmcf/d of natural gas in 2004.

Natural gas companies are planning to construct several LNG receiving terminals in Italy in order to meet estimated future demand. A consortium of British Gas and Enel plans to construct an LNG receiving terminal in Brindisi, along Italy's southeast coast. In late 2004, the consortium awarded a contract for construction of the facility to Italy's Tecnimont. The Brindisi consortium expected the facility to begin operations by 2008 with an initial output capacity of 770 Mmcf/d. British Gas has already secured a supply of LNG for the terminal from its own integrated production-gasification project in Egypt. 

ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum each hold 45 percent stakes in the proposed North Adriatic LNG project, an effort led by Italy's Edison to build an LNG receiving terminal on Italy's northern Adriatic coast. The project consists of a 770-Mmcf/d, offshore regasification facility near Rovigo, using LNG supplied by the RasGas II gas liquefaction project in Quatar. Completion of the project is on hold pending approval from local government officials, but Edison has stated that it expects initial production from the project by 2007.