Pursuing decarbonization for a group like Eni is certainly not easy. A company that's about assets oil & gas has built its history wants to anticipate global strategies to combat climate change as best it can. "Eni is undertaking a transformation process that will lead to the complete reduction of its net emissions based on technologies that we have already made operational at an industrial level or capable of becoming so in the short term" said the CEO Claudio Descalzi, just signed a new green collaboration agreement for his company. The subject chosen this time is another giant of Italian industry: Fincantieri.
The transport sector is experiencing a key moment. From naval to automotive, up to trains to be powered by hydrogen, oil companies are looking for synergies all over the world in order not to succumb to epochal transformations. With Fincantieri, Eni has signed a Memorandum of understanding for innovative projects to run ships without heavy fuels. The two companies have identified areas of common interest to reduce the impact on the environment resulting from merchant shipping. All on the road to that energy transition that for Joseph Bono, CEO of Fincantieri, "Italy has undertaken with determination".
The agreement concerns highly strategic national sectors, the "development of which will have a decisive weight in the new circular economy that will take shape in the coming years". Eni is preparing to reduce the fuel quota for boats. “We have invested heavily in research and development. The energy transition is above all a technological transition and only companies that have strong industrial and innovative capacity, as well as the will to join forces and skills, will be able to lead it”, says Descalzi.
At the recent G20 in Genoa, the Eco-Istituto of Reggio Emilia and Genoa appealed for reduce the chemical and physical impact of smoke and noise from ships hosted in ports. Together with many environmental associations, the approval of a method of measuring the concentrations of pollutants present in naval emissions and sensors that analyze the fumes was requested. You can start from the Mediterranean, creating an "area with naval emissions control" and you can also force ships to use clean fuels with limited sulfur content. Proposals that two Italian excellences can evaluate to join forces mentioned by Eni's CEO.
