Waste Management

Eni is constantly involved in monitoring and dealing with the production, recycling and disposal of waste material through dedicated management and monitoring systems.
The company's aim is to reduce the production of waste and promote the correct management of its final destination by increasing the quantity of waste that is recycled and sent for incineration and progressively reducing the amount sent to dumps.
In 2008, waste from production activities increased by about 97,600 tons compared to 2007 as a result of new drilling activities in Alaska and the disposal of drill cuttings in Nigeria and Algeria. Similar to the last four years, waste from reclamation activities accounted for more than 80% of the waste produced.

On the industrial level, Eni has developed advanced drilling systems for Exploration and Production activities that can be used  for drilling highly complex wells more efficiently and reducing mining risks. The most significant technology is called Lean Profile, which allows the time required and the final cost of drilling to be reduced, and also reduces the environmental impact and makes it possible to gain access to resources that cannot be exploited with traditional systems ( for example in Port Fouad in Egypt).

On the other hand, the Extreme Lean Profile project makes it possible to reach increased depths, further reduces the time required and operational costs and drastically reduces the volume of waste produced, which obviously has to be disposed of. This technology will be applied to all types of wells (vertical, deflected and horizontal).

In the offshore sector, the Clean Cut system was applied for the first time on a platform in the Adriatic Sea.This technology ensures that drilling cuttings are moved by means of a pressurised close circuit, which avoids the danger of spills and the risk of accidents caused by manually moving drilling waste.