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innovative solutions to help our clients in decarbo-
nizing their Oil & Gas value chains, and we actively
diversify in renewables with sufficient technological
complexity, such as offshore wind or hydrogen, for
instance. Consequently, our innovation agenda is
strictly aligned with these strategic priorities and we
manage a balanced portfolio of innovation projects
to address equally different opportunities and th-
reats.
For my part, I am a strong supporter of a “Just
Energy Transition”, which is driven more by prag-
matic step-by-step actions and less by emotions
and populism. In that sense, the role of solution in-
tegrators like Saipem, is very important to make all
new things actually work, at necessary scale”.

In the recent past we have seen numerous
announcements about Saipem’s cooperation
with other firms to co-develop new advanced
technologies related to the Energy Transi-
tion. Some are a very interesting and natural
extension with your traditional business and
technology lines. For example, wind and pho-
tovoltaic offshore, both with gravity-based as
well as with floating structures. Could you tell
us more?
“We have been very active in the last two years, by one field to the other. This is well recognized both Agnes Project
screening a lot of technology providers and signing from recent commercial achievements and from
several cooperation agreements. Our strategy is the development of new solutions (i.e. the floating
reported more in detail elsewhere (see our last Su- “Hexafloat” foundation or as regards solar floating
stainability and Climate Change reports for exam- parks). The same is also true onshore, in the case
ple), but it’s true that in some cases our approach of CO2 Capture, where acquisition of the Canadian
has been an extension of what we already were technology (which I’ll widely explain in answer 4)
capable to do, while in other cases we directed represents an enlargement of our huge know-how
ourselves towards new unchartered territories. in CO2 capture extensively used in our fertiliser and
Offshore wind and floating renewable solutions gasification plants”.
(both wind and solar) are an extension of our “art”
from the O&G business. We have always known We also see very innovative approaches in the
that our vessels could be useful also for installing marine energy sector, via your company Sa-
huge wind farms, and actually we filed a few pa- bella.
tent applications already in the first decade of the “Sabella’s story comes again from our past: Sai-
new millennium; so it was very natural to shift from pem, through its affiliate Sofresid Engineering, par- Saipem 7000 © Equinor

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