Project description
An integrated action plan to protect and fortify Europe's gas network
The European gas network constitutes an integral part of the EU’s energy supply. Its intricate infrastructure of operators, interconnected pipelines and diverse storage facilities makes it vulnerable to a variety of threats such as natural events, accidents, sabotages, and cyberattacks. A disruption in the network can have dire consequences for Europe’s security and the welfare of its citizens. The EU-funded SecureGas project proposes a resilience-based management of gas assets and infrastructures, built on a case-by-case integration, adaptation and customisation of advance components and technical solutions. The project aims to secure existing and forthcoming installations and make them resilient to both physical and cyberthreats, ultimately ensuring the safety and security of Europe’s energy supply.
Objective
SecureGas focuses on the 140.000Km of the European Gas network covering the entire value chain from Production to Distribution to the users, providing methodologies, tools and guidelines to secure existing and incoming installations and make them resilient to cyber-physical threats. Three business cases, addressing relevant issues for the Gas sector and beyond (e.g. oil), have been identified so that to ensure the delivery of solutions and services in line with clear needs and requirements, focused on: risk-based security asset management of gas transmission and distribution networks; impacts (economic, environmental and social) and cascading effects of cyber-physical attacks on interdependent and interconnected European Gas grids; integrity and security, through the operationalization of resilience guidelines, of strategic installations across the EU Gas network.
SecureGas tackles these issues by implementing, updating, and incrementally improving extended components, integrated and federated according to an High-Level Reference Architecture built upon the SecureGas Conceptual Model, a blue print on how to design, build, operate and maintain the EU gas network to make it secure and resilient against cyber-physical threats. The components are contextualized, customized, deployed, demonstrated and validated in each business case, according to the scenarios defined by the end-users. Related services provided by SecureGas will be offered to the end-users via a Platform as a Service (PaaS), that allows modularity, flexibility, cooperation and third-party interoperability, thus securing a long-lasting impact, supporting the project exploitation strategy. A multidisciplinary consortium (Gas operators, technology providers, research institutions, sector-related associations), supports the project implementation across Construction, Demonstration and Validation phases, as well as a Stakeholder Platform ensures inputs, advise, and a wider Diffusion of the project outcomes
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16129 Genova
Italy
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Participants (24)
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KT22 7AJ LEATHERHEAD SURREY
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16128 Genova
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80686 Munchen
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00195 Roma
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10177 Athina
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141 21 Irakleio Attikis
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00144 Roma
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11316 Tallinn
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04215 Vilnius
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42507 Netanya
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171 21 Nea Smyrni
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44801 Bochum
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92400 Courbevoie
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00015 MONTEROTONDO
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1048 Riga
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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118 54 ATHENS
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11475 Athens
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1101 Lefkosia
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00184 Roma
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180 00 Praha
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141 23 ATHINA
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8501 LIEBOCH
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48124 RAVENNA
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