Arad–Szeged pipeline Arad–Szeged pipeline The Arad–Szeged pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Arad in Romania to Szeged in Hungary diversifying natural gas suppliers and delivery routes for the two countries and connects the two natural gas national grids. The pipeline attempts to lessen the two country's dependence on Russian energy. The Arad–Szeged pipeline is part of the larger New European Transmission System meant to unite Central and South Eastern Europe's natural gas transmission networks. Preparations for the project started in 2008 and the intergovernmental agreement between Romania and Hungary was signed on 1 July 2008. The project is developed by the
Metropolitan City of Naples capital city. Due to the presence of Vesuvius and Phlegraean Fields, the city is vulnerable to seismic and volcanic activity. The city is 96th out of 110 Italian provinces and metropolitan cities by landmass, with an area (1,171 km² including islands) that is smaller than the core "comune" of Rome (1,287 km²). Naples is nevertheless Italy's 3rd largest city by population, making it one of the most densely populated areas in Europe; the metropolitan region also includes the municipality of Casavatore, the highest-density municipality in Italy (at 12,000 inhabitants/km²). While it contains more than half of Campania's population, it only