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compatibility of different activities thanks to transparent
cooperation with all the stakeholders.
The recently held 13 edition (29-31 March 2017)
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focused on the theme “Transition to a sustainable
energy mix: the contribution of the Oil&Gas industry”,
has hosted a record 20,603 participants, 634 exhibiting
companies from 30 nations, ministerial delegations and
national oil and gas companies from Europe, Northern
Africa, Middle East and Far East – offering to oil and gas
professionals an ideal arena for discussion on research
and development, technology achievements, future
challenges in the energy sector and providing a unique
networking opportunities.

Italy wants to act as a hub in an
integrated gas market” (Ivan Scalfarotto,
Undersecretary of the Ministry of
Economic Development

Energy transition and the central role of Mediterranean
as energy hub, bridging Europe and North Africa, have
been discussed in the Opening Plenary Session of the
conference.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economic
Development, Ivan Scalfarotto, has underlined how
natural gas is a perfect fellow of the renewables,
responding at the same time to the challenge of energy
security: constructive dialogue at transnational level is
necessary to put an integrated gas market in place,
where Italy wants to act as a hub.
Natural gas has also a great potential to further
contribute to the decarbonisation pathway agreed at
COP-21, noted Remi Eriksen (CEO DNV GL), by

he Offshore Mediterranean Conference A new model for renewables: producing
& Exhibition is a biannual event taking electricity by leveraging existing
place in Ravenna, northeast Italy, and is infrastructures, optimizing costs,
the largest oil&gas exhibition in Italy. reducing emissions, reducing gas
Started as a regional event in 1993, consumption” (Claudio Descalzi, CEO Eni)
T OMC has achieved through the years
international status, becoming the major Oil & Gas
event in the Mediterranean region. penetrating the transportation sector via LNG and
Strategically positioned in the Mediterranean basin, Italy displacing less climate-benign liquid fuels: the final goal
has developed the capabilities to act as a bridge is the greening of natural gas, by widely deploying
between Northern and Southern Europe. Ravenna, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) technologies
where offshore activities started in the early Fifties, has and exploiting the opportunities for biomethane
grown to become the greatest centre for the offshore production.
development in Italy, managing seismic surveys, drilling Claudio Descalzi (CEO Eni) presented the company
activities of hundreds of wells, construction and blueprint for developing renewables in its activities,
installation of several platforms in the Adriatic Sea. focusing on Eni’s new model of leveraging existing
Over the decades E&P activities have grown with no infrastructures to produce renewable electricity in a
interferences alongside the traditional features of the cost effective way, with the triple aim of reducing
region: agriculture, fishery, tourism, cultural heritage. emissions, optimizing costs, and reducing gas
Today the city is an example of sustainability and consumption in producing countries.

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