Eni, Enel Sign Contract for Carbon Capture




Eni and Enel completed a contract to develop an initial integrated pilot project to test the entire process of capturing carbon, injecting it underground, and monitoring the stability and safety of the deposit.

 

In addition, the companies along with the Environment Ministry signed a Memorandum of Understanding targeted at verifying and diffusing CO2 capture techniques and at promoting renewable resources. Minister Stefania Prestgiacomo said, “Our project is aimed at spotting the lines of sustainable action towards the reduction and containment of the greenhouse houses and at foreseeing investments for an increased use of renewable sources.”

 

The forward movement into the renewable sector is a result of two separate projects implemented by Eni and Enel. Eni has begun injecting about 8,000 tons of CO2 a year at the Stogit exhausted field at Cortemaggiore. Italy’s first industrial CO2 capture plant, capable of removing 2.5 tons of gas an hour, has almost reached fruition through the efforts of Enel. The pilot plant is expected to be online by the fall of 2009.

 

Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni commented, “We will be able to use freely coal for power reduction whilst offering a significant contribution on three fields: the environment, through the segregation of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; the safety of energy supply, through the utilization of a resource which is widespread in our planet; and, last but not least, the final consumer, who will benefit from low-cost electricity.”

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