On March 2023, Claudio Descalzi and the delegation illustrated to President Ruto the results of the project for the production of vegetable oil for biorefining, which the company launched in the country in 2022. Based on an integrated supply chain model, the project leverages marginal or degraded land and crops that do not compete with the food supply chain. The first processing plant (or agri-hub) in Makueni county, has a capacity of 15,000 tons/year and its production of vegetable oil is already feeding the Gela refinery, in Italy. A second agri-hub will be launched in the second half of 2023, and others in the following years, to reach a production target of 200,000 tonnes by 2026. Eni CEO also shared with President Ruto the Waste & Residue initiatives, also to provide feedstock for biorefining. The collection and export of used cooking oil began in 2022 and today involves over 400 suppliers. Finally, Descalzi and President Ruto also discussed further initiatives in the areas of e-mobility, renewable energy and waste to energy. These programs will be finalized in the next months.
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New business opportunities promoted for small farmers in Kenya
Enhancing the country’s energy transition while ensuring a stable market for small farmers.

Used Cooking Oil in Kenya
Eni is looking for local partnership to implement waste and residues collection.
We create energy
We operate in the country through our subsidiary Eni Kenya. We are engaged in business activities and also promote initiatives for the socio-economic development of the territory, such as the creation of a solar-powered desalination plant to guarantee the population access to clean water in Lamu County.
Seeds for energy
The project, which started in December 2021, involves about 25,000 local farming families in the production of 200,000 tonnes per year of agri-feedstock by 2026, starting with the cultivation of castor beans, the harvesting of croton and the development of co-products of the local cotton industry, for which an output of 30,000 tonnes per year is expected in 2023.
Find out moreNew strategies to decarbonize transports
Biofuels from castor oil, croton nuts and cotton. This is the future of Eni's biorefining system. The project in Kenya officially started in July 2021 with the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the government.
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Energy for development
A book of photographs exploring our work in some of the countries in which we operate.
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