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40 Eni for 2016 | Operating model

Arctic operations

Eni’s technological and operational environmental and climatic aspects require
excellence guarantees safety even in extreme a sustainable and responsible approach.
environments such as the Arctic, whose Eni’s approach involves:

Offshore drilling The use of the best Local native Activities are carried
operations in ice-free drilling technologies, populations are out only in periods
areas only, which reducing the involved, they that have a minimum
are considered diameter of wells, are informed and impact on the
workable areas managing pressure, their activities are surrounding habitat,
where operational blow-out preventer protected. Their with the application
risk is minimum and and robotic systems skills in managing of specific biodiversity
manageable with to prevent and emergencies are conservation models
the know-how and contain any oil spills. enhanced. for the local realities
best technologies and pioneering oil spill
currently available. prevention plans.

Eni produces hydrocarbons mainly in Alaska wells and some of them are used to reinject
and in the Barents Sea, where, in 2016, off the water and gas. Goliat receives renewable
coast of Norway, the Goliat reservoir started electricity using submarine cables connected
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production. to the mainland, this means CO emissions
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It is the world’s most northern reservoir are half those of other solutions.
and was developed using a sophisticated The project also has an advanced system for
cylindrical floating production and storage managing and preventing oil spills, like the
unit (FPSO), with a capacity of 1 million Coastal Oil Spill Preparedness Improvement
barrels of oil. The unit was built to operate in Program (COSPIP), which Eni launched in
particularly sensitive environments, such as collaboration with other major oil companies
the Arctic, in a sustainable way. and international and national research
Production is carried out using submarine institutes.
33) Eni 65%, operator, with Statoil 35%.