Waste Management

For the last two years, the amount of waste from production activities has remained stable. Eni is firm in its commitment to decrease waste production by increasing recycled and recovered waste and therefore reducing dumping.

Since 2007, Eni has been working on a project aimed at monitoring and controlling the entire cycle of waste produced with the objective of ensuring sound waste management and identifying opportunities for minimizing waste production.

In 2009, in the Exploration & Production sector, the standard Waste Management Planning (WMP) was
defined. This standard provide for an annual planning process aimed at monitoring, controlling and planning for the types of waste produced, as well as identifying improvement objectives with the guarantee of a univocal approach to these matters by the countries where the operations have taken place

In particular, activities were initiated for the purpose of improving the management in Algeria, in Pakistan and in Kazakhstan.  KCO is evaluating the application of “cuttings re-injections‘ to the activities carried out in the maxi-reservoir in Kashagan  directed at a drastic reduction in the amount of transported and dumped waste.

In the refining sector, the Cantiere Rifiuti project was completed. The project aimed at (i) the identification of potential savings in the management of the waste produced by refineries, (ii) a review of the management of the entire production cycle and (iii) a full compliance with the European regulations as regards waste tracking.

In 2009, the petrochemical sector continued its activities aimed at achieving, by 2011, the objective of a 10% waste reduction against the figures of 2007. In this respect, in 2009 the first phase for the analysis and classification of the types of waste produced, and the identification of single destinations for the same kinds of waste originating at all the production sites, was completed.

The installation of compactors, within the LNG fleet, for the reduction of the volume of waste produced, was also completed in the Gas & Power sector.