(Finance) – The CEO of Eni, Claudius Descalziand the President of the Company, Joseph Zafaranawelcomed today at the “Eni 2050 lab” technopole, located within the architectural context of the Roma Ostiense Gazometer, the President of the Republic of Angola, Joao Lourencotogether with a delegation of Angolan Government Ministers to illustrate the technological solutions at the heart of the company’s decarbonisation strategy.
The meeting takes place as part of the state visit of the President, who today was accompanied by Adão Francisco Correia De AlmeidaMinister of State and Chief of Cabinet of the President of the Republic, e Tete AntonioMinister for Foreign Affairs.
Eni 2050 lab is a multifunctional space dedicated to innovation and research which includes a laboratory, a monitoring area and an immersive visualization area for advanced modeling based on supercomputers of Eni HPC4 and HPC5. Within it, Eni promotes proprietary and breakthrough technologies for the decarbonizationactive on the three main corporate research platforms: renewables and new energies, solutions for decarbonisation, circular and bio products.
During the visit, the results most significant achievements in these areas by R&D of Eni including the development projects on agro-energy and the EcofiningTM technology to obtain biofuels from waste and raw materials of biological origin not in competition with food use, scientific collaborations with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), ENEA and CNR in research on fusion energyinnovations in the field of robotics to automate and digitize environmental monitoring and asset integrity activities, research on new renewable and on storage energeticas well as systems and products in the area of CO2 capture, storage and utilization. Technological innovation is achieved thanks to the synergy between internal research, advanced engineering skills, skills and digital tools that use the great computing power of Eni’s supercomputers.
Eni with its 7 research centers in Italy, as well as 1,000 researchers And 8,000 patents is a company with a strong technological content. Innovation is the tool with which Eni faces the complexity of the challenges posed by energy transition, with the aim of offering decarbonised solutions, services and products, also through the creation of new business models. Each new result obtained by Eni Research contributes to the achievement of the objective NetZero to the 2050with an approach based on the principle of technological neutrality, according to which there is no single solution to achieve the energy transition, but it is necessary to have a technological mix that can be adapted to different applications and needs.
The meeting also made it possible to enhance Eni’s commitment on the front of training for new skills and support for supply chains: from the agribusiness capacity building project dedicated to the world of institutions to Open-es, a development platform on ESG issues in support of suppliers, up to Joule, Eni’s School for Business which launched recently specific projects for the development of local startups in Kenya and Congo.
The Chief Executive Officer of Eni, Claudius Descalzi, commented: “We are honored to be able to host today the President of Angola and the Ministers of the Angolan Government. This visit is a source of great satisfaction for us, as it demonstrates the validity of the alliance model we have built with various countries in which we operate, of which Angola is one of the most important. Against the common goal of carrying out a fair energy transition path that does not neglect the importance of security of supply, we are cooperating with our partners to combine resources, technologies for the transition and availability of energy sources in order to carry out together a development path that respects the peculiarities and leaves no one behind. We have created real alliances based on balance and mutual respect, within which we leave to local populations a large part of the energy we produce together, we contribute to local socio-economic development, we create local employment, we favor access to energy and we promote diversified initiatives in fields such as health, education, agriculture, professional and entrepreneurial training. We thus create mutual value, due to the prospect of being able to further diversify our energy mixes and supply routes, and to create an abundance of increasingly decarbonised energy in favor of competitiveness and growth”.
The frame of the visit is that of Gasometer Of Rome Ostiensea complex owned by Eni currently undergoing transformation and in which the first technological innovation district dedicated to new energy supply chains and open to applied industrial research collaborations in synergy with the world of research and universities was recently launched.