INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Main Projects

The results achieved by Eni in its first fifty years of activities are a confirmation of the Company's determination to reach increasingly ambitious objectives. Eni has become one of the world's leading oil companies thanks to its ability to face and meet challenges that appeared impossible. The achieved objectives and the successfully performed work, often in extreme conditions, were possible because Eni has never ceased to look at oil and natural gas as a frontier industry. No challenge can be taken up without a frontier spirit. This also underlies the success and the development of the projects described in this Section.

Ongoing projects
Completed projects

Eni is co-operator with 32.5% of share of the Karachaganak oil, condensate and natural gas reservoir in the North West of Kazakhstan. In 2008 the average production foe Eni was of 68,000 barrel/day of liquids and 6.9 million m3/day of natural gas, for a total of 111,000 boe / day.
Eni participates in the development of Kashagan giant oil field in the northern offshore of the Caspian Sea. According to the development plan the production will reach 7-9 billion barrels, that will be increased to 13 billions through partial re-injection gas.

Deep Water: Eni has become one of the world's leading operators in the deep-water offshore. Today it operates in several exploration projects in deep waters (depth of more than 450 meters) and ultra-deep waters (depth of more than 1,5000 meters) around the world.
To repair deep water pipelines without the aid of divers, it was developed the repair system SiRCoS.
The Western Libyan Gas Project was the first major project to valorize the natural gas produced in Libya through export and marketing in Europe. The natural gas comes from the Bahr Essalam and Wafa fields. Gas and condensates are transported with two pipelines to the treatment plant at Mellitah and then in Italy through the Greenstream pipeline.
The Transmed connects one of the world's largest natural gas reserves, located in the Algerian desert, with the Po Valley in Italy. It is more than 2,000 kilometres long. The project involved a series of technological challenges, including the undersea laying of pipeline in the waters of the Sicilian Channel that reach depths of 600 metres.
The technological complexity of the Blue Stream project, that crosses the Black Sea from Russia to Turkey, derives from the unprecedented difficulty of the coastal landing infrastructure and the seabed. The geo-technical, geo-morphological and bathymetric characteristics of the seabed are varied and demanding; ultra-deep waters, a corrosive environment resulting from the presence of hydrogen sulphide, the steep cliff faces and geological risks.