In September 2024, Eni and joint venture partner Snam started up Phase 1 of the Ravenna carbon capture and storage project, the first of its kind in Italy with a capture capacity of 0.25 Mt per year.
Carbon captured at Eni’s Casalborsetti natural gas treatment plant is now being injected and permanently stored in the depleted Porto Corsini Mare Ovest gas field in the Adriatic Sea. The initiative is already cutting the Casalborsetti plant’s CO2 emissions by up to 96% during peaks. The actual volumes correspond to those captured due to the system’s efficiency,
where the power supply is ensured by the recovery of self-produced thermal energy and electricity from renewable sources.
Phase 2 of the project, due to start by 2030, will allow annual storage of up to 4 Mt of CO2. A significant portion of this is expected to be used by hard-to-abate industries such as cement, steel, fertilizer and chemicals in the Ravenna industrial zone as well as power plants.
Given high market demand and potential annual CO2 injection capacity of up to 16 Mt per year after 2030, Ravenna is on track to become a strategic CCUS hub for the decarbonization of heavy industries across Southern Europe.
