Eni confirmation Porto Marghera which strategic area for the development of projects to wide sustainability



To conclusion of an encounter between Salvatore Sardo, chief downstream and industrial operations officer of the Eni group, and Paolo Costa, president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, the oil group and the harbour agency have announced that Eni has confirmed Marghera Port which strategic area for the development of projects to wide sustainability in next the 20 years.

To Marghera Port the Eni group has completed the first phase of the reconversion of the Refinery of Venice for the production of innovative, better biocarburanti in terms of environmental sustainability (reduction of the particulate matter) and motoristica efficiency, thanks to the technology owner Ecofining who will allow also the working of feedstock of second generation, which oils exhausted vegetables and fat animals. The second progettuale phase, now in autorizzativa phase, previews the completion of the systems in first semester 2017. In the area of the petrochemical one, Eni is engaged in a project for the realization of an area of handling and storage LPG, whose iter autorizzativo it is to the final beaten ones, let alone for the transformation of the Versalis plant in an integrated technological pole of chemistry from renewable sources. The birth of a technological pole of chemistry from renewable sources to Marghera Port - they have emphasized the harbour authority and the oil group - will determine a chemical new of specialty, to greater added value and an economic sustainability of along breath, perfectly integrated with the logistics of the other Versalis plants to Mantua, Ferrara and Ravenna.

Eni has moreover confirmed to have completed the work of conditioning of the oil pipe-line that connects the port of San Leonardo to the Refinery for the reception of diesel oil to the Island of the Oils, operation that will constitute the foundation in order to continue to answer to the requirements of the market being made of Marghera Port the hub logistic for a market that goes beyond the Northeast. The Port of San Leonardo will continue to operate until solutions alternatives subordinated to the realization of the platform of height to the wide one of Malamocco under planning.

At last the will is confirmed to promote new infrastructures for handling and storage of which liquified natural gas in the harbour area of Venice in the within of the Masterplan for LNG in the promoted Adriatic North from the European Union. The collaboration effectively previews the study of feasibility and the realization of a project pilot finalized to natural the gas refueling which liquified for marine average little ones so contributing to return the port of call of more and more green and ecosostenibile Venice.