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Eni to invest €21bn in Italy over the next four years

24 ottobre 2017 | 18.17
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Eni will adopt "a low-carbon focus" and spend a total 21 billion euros in Italy through 2021 including four billion euros on industrial conversions, the Italian energy giant said on Tuesday.

"The aim is to breathe new life into existing assets with a low-carbon focus and to encourage a more efficient use of energy, without reducing employment, but investing in technology and skills," Eni said.

Eni made the announcement the same day that Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni paid a visit to its Venice biorefinery, the world’s first example of the conversion of a traditional refinery, the coal and gas giant stated.

Eni chair Emma Marcegaglia and chief executive, Claudio Descalzi accompanied Gentiloni on the visit to the converted Porto Marghera site focused on producing innovative biofuels, the company said.

The high-quality biofuels are obtained through Ecofining technology conceived and developed by Eni, which leads to the creation of lower-emission green diesel, the company noted.

The reconversion of refineries to biorefineries - completed in Venice and underway at Eni's plant in Gela, Sicily - are a crucial element in the low-carbon transformation process that Eni is adopting in its activities, it said.

Gentiloni described the conversion of Venice's Porto Marghera refinery as of "great importance".

"The challenge is how ensure economic revival, innovation, technology and development do not destroy but create jobs," he said.

"This is difficult but it is possible - and what better example could there be than a refinery like Porto Marghera?" Gentiloni underlined.

Eni's investments in Italy through 2021 follow the 15 billion euros it spent over the past three years and are aimed at re-launching its activities and driving "a profound transformation" across the business including in its upstream, chemicals, power generation and site remediation sectors, Eni said.

Total production of green-diesel will reach 1 million tonnes per year in 2020, with an overall investment of some 500 million, Eni stated.

Green-diesel, which can be added in unlimited quantities to traditional diesel, allows a reduction in CO2 emissions of 7 percent and a cut in particulate emissions of up to 40 percent while also improving engine efficiency, Eni noted.

Eni invested some 1.5 billion euros in research from 2009 to 2016, enabling the company to develop more than 300 proprietary technologies and over 6,000 patents, it said.

In the next four years, Eni said it will invest over 500 million euros, collaborating with leading Italian and international universities, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.

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