TAP, urgent maintenance on the Salento gas pipeline begins: 'Cracks in the duct'
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The gas pipeline in Salento needs urgent maintenance due to some cracks in its external coating and the places where it is located: here is the ministry's document and the No Tap protest
Gas spills would not be possible. TAP is the gas pipeline that brings methane from Azerbaijan to Italy, landing on the coast of Melendugno, in the province of Lecce
The underwater pipeline already needs urgent maintenance due to cracks on the outer mantle and 15 points where the tube does not rest on the seabed. This is what emerges from the documentation published by the Ministry of the Environment
The TAP gas pipeline is already in need of maintenance. Three years after the start-up of the infrastructure that diversified the gas supply for Italy, the pipeline has “at least 3 spots of cracks in the outer mantle” and “at least 15 'free spans'”, i.e. points where the pipeline does not rest on the seabed, thus becoming subject to vibrations and currents of the Otranto Canal. The problems of TAP have been revealed by the No Tap Collective, whi…
The result of the inspections has been published by the Ministry of the Environment with the photos: the gas pipeline no longer rests on the seabed. I No Tap: 'We expected it'. The company...
The concrete roof of the TAP gas pipeline, which is several kilometers underwater, is damaged at one point by a crack but - as we learn from multinational sources - there would be no danger because the pipeline pipe is intact and is not likely to break, and therefore gas leaks would not be possible. TAP is the gas pipeline that brings methane from Azerbaijan to Italy, landing on the coast of Melendugno, in the province of Lecce. The same sources…
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