Ciarrocchi (Eni): “CO2 capture and storage, we must act now”

Second day of work at the WTO in Ravenna, the Mediterranean conference on energy with the presence of all the main actors, both institutional and industrial. One of the main challenges for our time is certainly that of decarbonisation. Transforming development models for a low-carbon energy future is the conference attended by countries and industrial partners with a particular emphasis on CO2 capture, storage and reuse. Just off Ravenna in the Adriatic Sea, Eni aims to create a hub for the storage of carbon dioxide with the reuse of part of the existing infrastructure of depleted fields. “Eni’s path – explains Luigi Ciarrocchi, Ccus & Forestry Director, Eni – is to be completely decarbonised by 2050 including the products marketed, one of the levers is the capture, storage and reuse of CO2. It is a lever that together the promotion of renewables, energy efficiency, the production of biofuels and the protection of forests will help us achieve our goals “. There are sectors that in the production process release enormous quantities of CO2 that are very difficult to abate. In Italy alone, steel mills, industries for the production of ceramics, paper mills produce 80 million tons of CO2 per year. For decarbonisation, the only solution for Eni is capture and storage. “For that type of emissions there is no alternative – explains Ciarrocchi – and we must act immediately, we cannot wait years to prevent this percentage of emissions, which in Italy represents 20-25%, continues to go into the atmosphere”.