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Photo 3 - Tolmount Platform
Sail Away

gy Transition. of the key players in energy transition and achie-
Natural Gas – this is our traditional target market ving the decarbonisation targets dictated by the
and will continue to be a fundamental element in European Green Deal and the COP21 Conferen-
enabling energy transition to Carbon Neutral in ce in Paris, was taken by acquiring 60% of Green
2050 which, let us not forget, requires significant Methane, a company that builds biogas treatment
technological development and strong political plants to obtain high-purity biomethane by absor-
support to be commercially viable. bing CO2 with potassium carbonate. The same
Offshore Wind - the construction of offshore sub- technology has been adopted for Carbon Captu-
stations are already an important part of our com- re projects of effluents from power plants currently
mitment to a market that today reaches 55.8GW under construction in Oslo and Stockholm. The
between fields in operation and those under con- fact that the founders of Green Methane remain
struction and which foresees the development in the shareholder structure with significant stakes
of a further 246GW over the next 10 years (see shows how strongly all partners believe in the value
graph 4). The UK, with 20.8GW, will be the third of the initiative.
largest country for new installed capacity after Chi-
na (27.4GW) and the USA (26.8GW). This sector, Another important step towards
which today has been totally developed through fi-
xed platforms, will also see the improvement of flo- becoming one of the key players
ating technology which will allow the development “in energy transition
of ever larger fields even at greater depths and di- and achieving the
stances from the coast.
Energy Transition - A recent report published by decarbonisation targets was
The Oil and Gas Authority’s (“OGA”) in collabora- taken by acquiring 60% of
tion with Ofgem, The Crown Estate and the De-
partment for Business, Energy and Industrial Stra- Green Methane, a company
tegy (“BEIS”) highlighted the opportunity for the that builds biogas treatment
integration of offshore energy systems, including oil plants to obtain high-purity
and gas, renewables, hydrogen and carbon cap-
ture and storage to deliver approximately 30% of biomethane
the UK’s total carbon reduction. The UK’s goals are
ambitious and have a much shorter time-to-market
than those which we are accustomed to in Italy:
the recent award of a license for Carbon Capture Brexit: definitely
and Storage to Eni UK, together with the difference an opportunity
in political approach - highly supportive in the UK
and completely absent in Italy - is the clearest proof Brexit is already affecting developers’ plans for
of this. initiatives in the UK, so the ability to carry out an
Another important step towards becoming one increasing number of activities locally is of para-

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