For Eni, the 43% stake held in Saipem represents "a non-core stake". To say it is the CEO of the energy giant Claudio Descalzi, illustrating the updates of the strategy and the 2014-2017 plan of the group: Eni, with the contribution of a financial advisor, "is evaluating a series of options on which it will update the market appropriately" .
In any case, according to Descalzi, “there's no hurry, we're waiting for the right moment”. The group's disposal program was then increased from the 9 billion previously envisaged up to 11 billion.