Phase 1 of Ravenna CCS — the first such project in the country — would store some 25,000 tonnes of carbon per year

CO2 injection starts at Eni-led Italian carbon capture project 1

Eni and Snam have started sequestering carbon dioxide at their carbon capture and storage project offshore northern Italy, the joint venture partners said on Tuesday.

The equal partnership between the Italian oil major Eni and gas transport operator has now officially started Phase 1 of the Ravenna CCS project, the first such project in the country.

During Phase 1, carbon dioxide emissions from Eni’s Casalborsetti gas treatment plant near Ravenna will be captured, transported offshore via converted gas pipeline for permanent sequestration in the depleted Porto Corsini Mare Ovest gas field.

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Eni estimates the process will reduce the plant’s flue gas emissions by 96%.

“The capture and storage of CO2 is an effective, safe — and now available — means to reduce emissions from energy-intensive industries whose activities cannot be electrified,” commented Eni chief executive Claudio Descalzi.
Phase 1 at Ravenna CCS is projected to store some 25,000 tonnes per annum of CO2.

Capacity is planned to be expanded to up to 4 million tpa CO2 injection capacity by 2030.

The partners estimate that depleted gas fields in the Adriatic Sea could store some 16 million tpa CO2, if fully developed.

Snam chief executive Stefano Venier said his company’s strategy is to become a “multi-molecule operator” to accommodate the energy transition and meet evolving needs of customers, in particular from hard to abate industries.

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“To do so, we leverage our long-standing expertise in the transport and storage of molecules,” said Venier.

The Ravenna CCS project has been backed by the European Union under its projects of common interests’ mandate.

Europe has a target to develop CCS capacity across its member states in excess of 50 million tpa CO2 by 2030.
Outside of Italy, Eni is involved in the HyNet CCS cluster project in the UK as CO2 transport and storage operator.
 

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