Marco Fabbro got graduated in Material Engineering at University of Padua (Italy) in 2007 and has worked with Snam since December 2007. His first job was as a technician in the material testing lab, where he was involved in welds and coatings quality testing and in pipelines failure analysis. He got the qualification of International Welding Engineer in 2010. In 2010 he moved to maintenance staff unit, where he was involved in the generation of assets maintenance planning, in the analysis of maintenance performance and audit on field. From 2014 to 2018 he was in charge of two maintenance units located in southern Italy.
He has been in charge of geohazard management department since March 2018, where a large part of his activity is about the analysis of interactions between soil movements and pipelines, cooperating with a team of geologists and strain gauge technicians; that is performed gathering data from the grid, evaluating the situations of hydrogeological instability which have possibly affected the pipelines and deciding the most suitable mitigative actions to decrease the hazard for the network.
He is also responsible for the update of technical standards relating to strain gauges and relative data loggers and the maintenance engineering of those equipments.
Finally he is involved in the scouting of technologies for structural monitoring of the pipelines and geotechnical monitoring of slopes, which could experimentally be tested in specific sites along the grid. One project he has worked on since 2018 is the use of Insar data to detect unknown creeping soil movements close to the gas grid. Specific issues he faced are the design of internal guidelines for the use of data and the development of a customized informatic platform to manage those data.
