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Damietta LNG facility: announced the 500th cargo

In line with our strategy aimed at ensuring gas supply security and diversification, on February 2023 Damietta LNG facility has successfully produced and loaded its 500^th LNG cargo. During year 2022, Damietta LNG produced and exported approximately 4 million tons of LNG, which considered the largest volume in its almost 20-year history, making it the first LNG terminal in Egypt in terms of LNG exports and contributing to Egypt’s role as an energy hub in the Mediterranean. Around 60% of the total shipments from Damietta plant were delivered to Europe.

Claudio Descalzi in Egypt, was signed a Memorandum of Intent to collaborate on gas valorization

On Jenuary 2023, the Chief Executive Officer of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, met The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, to follow up on areas of common interest and collaboration, with a focus on Eni’s ongoing exploration campaign and and gas valorization. The parties discussed Eni’s ongoing and future plans for the energy transition and decarbonisation of the Egyptian energy sector, including initiatives to substitute gas with renewable energy in assets, circular economy projects, CCS plants, production of agro-feedstock for biorefining, and others. Furthermore, a Memorandum of Intent (“MoI”) to collaborate on emission reduction technologies, including gas flaring reduction and gas improvement.

New gas discovery in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

On January 2023, Eni announced a significant new gas discovery at the Nargis-1 exploration well located in Nargis Offshore Area Concession, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, offshore Egypt. Nargis-1 confirms the validity of Eni’s focus on Egypt Offshore, which the company will further develop thanks to the recent award of exploration blocks North Rafah, North El Fayrouz, North East El Arish, Tiba and Bellatrix-Seti East.

The most recent exploration activities

Developed and undeveloped acreage was 18,712 square kilometers (6,776 square kilometers net to Eni). Eni’s main producing operated activities are located in the Shorouk block (Eni’s interest 50%) in the Mediterranean Offshore with the giant Zohr gas field, the Sinai concession, mainly in the Belayim Marine-Land and Abu Rudeis fields (Eni’s interest 100%), the Western Desert in the Melehia (Eni’s interest 76%), South West Meleiha (Eni’s interest 100%), Ras Qattara (Eni’s interest 75%) and West Abu Gharadig (Eni’s interest 45%) concessions and (iv) Baltim (Eni’s interest 50%), Nile Delta (Eni’s interest 75%), North Port Said (Eni’s interest 100%), North Razzak (Eni’s interest 100%) and Temsah (Eni’s interest 50%) concessions. Furthermore, we participate in the Ras el Barr (Eni’s interest 50%) and South Ghara (Eni’s interest 25%) concessions. In July 2021 an agreement was signed with the State energy, electricity and natural gas companies to assess the technical and commercial feasibility of projects for the blue and green hydrogen production also through the storage of CO2 in depleted natural gas fields. In January 2022, Eni was awarded five exploration licenses, of which four as operator in the Egyptian offshore and onshore, following the successful participation in the Egypt International Bid Round for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation 2021. The licenses are in mining basins of great interest to Eni: offshore East Mediterranean, the Western Desert and the Gulf of Suez, for a total acreage of about 8,410 square kilometers. In 2021, Eni’s production amounted to 360 kboe/day and accounted for approximately 21% of Eni’s total annual hydrocarbon production. Exploration and production activities in Egypt are regulated by Production Sharing Agreements. In 2021, desalination plants have been installed or upgraded in Egypt, and projects are underway for the re-injection and exploitation for Improved Oil Recovery (IOR), secondary recovery method of hydrocarbons applied to stimulate the process of extraction of non-recoverable hydrocarbons by conventional mechanism, purposes of production water.

The restart of Damietta liquefied natural gas plant

The liquefaction plant in Egypt, owned by SEGAS (50% Eni, 40% EGAS and 10% EGPC), has resumed production in March 2021. The purchase of Egyptian LNG consolidates Eni's integrated development strategy by increasing the volumes and flexibility of its portfolio, in synergy with its Upstream assets. Through this agreement, the company strengthens its presence in the East Mediterranean, a key region for the supply of natural gas, which is a fundamental resource for the energy transition. Damietta natural gas liquefaction plant has a producing capacity of 5.2 mmtonnes/year of LNG corresponding to approximately 280 bcf/y of feed gas. Moreover, the construction of a new gas treatment plant, which will be connected to the Western Desert Gas Complex in Alexandria, will allow to further exploit region's gas reserves, strengthening Eni's role as the largest gas producer in Egypt. In April 2022, Eni and the Egyptian state-owned company EGAS agreed to valorize local gas reserves by increasing activities in jointly operated concessions and by exploring near field areas, with the goal of boosting production and gas exports to Italy via the Damietta liquefaction plant at an expected initial rate of up to 3 billion cubic meters in 2022. Thanks to the discovery of the Zohr and Nooros fields, Eni's gas production in 2021 accounted for 56% of Egypt's entire production; about 60% of the gas is used for electricity generation, with Eni contributing 40%.

Signed an agreement to produce hydrogen in Egypt

In July 2021 we signed an agreement with the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) and the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) to assess the technical and commercial feasibility of projects to produce hydrogen in the country. We will conduct a study into joint projects to produce green hydrogen, using electricity generated from renewables, and blue hydrogen, through the storage of CO₂ in depleted natural gas fields. The study will also analyse the potential local market consumption of hydrogen and export opportunities. This agreement is part of the path that Eni has undertaken to reach the target of eliminating Scopes 1, 2 and 3 net emissions (Net GHG Lifecycle Emissions) and cancelling out the relative emission intensity (Net Carbon Intensity) by 2050, referring to the entire life cycle of the energy products sold. It will also support Egypt’s strategy for energy transition, diversifying its energy mix.

Reducing fresh water withdrawals by third parties in Abu Madi

During 2021, careful work was carried out to revamp the water network to reduce water losses in the system in the Abu Madi field. The revamping of the network, which included the replacement of pipes and associated testing, was ultimately aimed at reducing the withdrawal of fresh water supplied by third parties. The impact of the intervention, in terms of water saving, is already visible a few months after the completion of the civil works, completed in June 2021: a reduction in freshwater withdrawals estimated at about 190m3 /day at the end of 2021 vs. 2019. During the months of April, May and June 2021, work was completed on the drilling of two littoral wells to reduce withdrawals of fresh water supplied by third parties and to meet the needs of the operating site. The completion and testing phase was completed in December 2021 and the low salinity water from these wells was found to be compatible for use in the fire fighting system. Both wells were therefore connected to the network to feed the fire-fighting system, thus saving an estimated 2,000m3 / month in freshwater withdrawals from the first days of January 2022.

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Our work in Egypt

Damietta LNG facility: announced the 500th cargo

Claudio Descalzi in Egypt, was signed a Memorandum of Intent to collaborate on gas valorization

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New gas discovery in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

The most recent exploration activities

The restart of Damietta liquefied natural gas plant

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