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24 Eni for 2016 | Path to decarbonization

• Eni aims to reduce its carbon footprint also by exploiting
CO -TO-Oil technology which captures CO in order to produce
2 2
a third generation biofuel. This is a new technology based on
the cultivation of micro algae in bio-reactors which produce a
bio-algal oil suitable for use in a Green Refinery. The technology
is being developed in Ragusa and the plant’s start-up is expected
in April 2017.
• Eni is developing Waste-to-Fuel processes able to transform the
organic part of solid urban waste (FORSU) into bio-oils to feed
into the refining cycle in order to obtain biofuels. The technology’s
development stage on a pilot scale has been completed at the
Novara Research Centre.

| Green chemistry

Chemistry from renewable from renewable sources. These in more stable market segments.
sources is a strategic sector are then integrated with those Among the projects already
for Eni’s medium-to-long from traditional fossil sources launched, mention must be
term development, especially and partly usable for the same made of the Porto Torres and
because it focuses on innovative market applications that are Porto Marghera programs for
technologies that are not readily predominantly fossil-based developing renewable products
available on the market and uses today. This aim is crucial for Eni for application sectors with
raw materials, such as biomass, to pursue the development of high added value and, in some
vegetable oils and second sustainable chemistry. cases, connected to Chemistry
generation sugars that are less The new projects will broaden the businesses or to hydrocarbon
susceptible to market volatility. portfolio of products considerably, exploration and production
These can be integrated upstream improving the Company’s activities. These include
through agricultural chains. resistance to difficult competitive applications for oilfield chemicals,
The aim is to identify sustainable scenarios where price level is the bio-lubricants, bio-plastics,
chains and technologies in key variable in sales policies and detergents, cosmetics and
order to obtain intermediates consolidating Versalis’s presence medical applications.

• Project for the production of natural latex, dry rubber and Guayule resin which includes the development
of the whole agricultural chain and aims to use all the plant components. Cultivations are being
experimented in Basilicata and Sicily.
• Technological joint venture (80% Versalis) with the biotechnology company Genomatica for the
production of butadiene from vegetable raw materials. This project was given the Environmental
Achievement Award by the Tire Technology Committee.