The Porto Torres petrochemical hub, one of the largest in Italy, was set up in 1962 by entrepreneur Nino Rovelli’s SIR - Società Italiana Resine (Italian Resin Company) for the large-scale production of phenol, with funding from the Sardinia Rebirth Plan. In later years, olefins, aromatics, chlorinated derivatives, intermediates and synthetic rubbers were added to the production. With the crisis in the chemical sector, in the early 1980s activities were legally transferred to Eni, then a state-owned company, through Enichem, which reorganised and updated them by putting in place new technologies. Between 1994 and 1995, Enichem transferred its fine chemicals production lines to the European Vynils Corporation and Condea Augusta. In 2003, when Enichem changed its name to Syndial (Eni Rewind), the production plants (for styrenes, elastomers and polyethylene) passed to Polimeri Europa (Versalis). Today, Eni Rewind owns over 1,100 hectares of land and is working on the authorised remediation projects of soil and groundwater using sustainable and innovative solutions, such as the construction of a multifunctional platform for on-site soil treatment.
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Porto Torres
We are working on soil and groundwater remediation with sustainable and innovative solutions.
1998
Start of the remediation process
SIR Group
Origin of areas
~1,870 ha (of land)
Surface area of the Porto Torres Site of National Priority, of which 1,124 are owned by Eni Rewind
€ 565 million
Environmental costs at 2023
OPEX € 16.1 million
Annual water management costs
~ 2,613,000 m³
Treated water in 2023
~ 548,000 m³
Recovered water in 2023
Our activities in Porto Torres
The environmental activities at the site began during the late Nineties with safety measures, characterisation and the construction of the monitoring network and groundwater treatment plants. In 2010, on approval of the risk analysis, an action plan was defined that takes into account the commitments Eni made with the authorities. The company has also completed the demolition of all the installations and buildings outside the compound, with the exception of sixteen tanks and their interconnections, where works began in June 2024, as well as the Tripolyphosphate building, for which the definitive decree by the ministry of Environment is currently pending.
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We have carried out environmental remediation and regeneration activities in former industrial and brownfield sites.