Eni has started gas production from the Argo Cassiopea field, the most important gas development project in Italy.
The gas, coming from one of the four subsea wells drilled in recent months in the Strait of Sicily, has been transported through a 60 km subsea pipeline to the Gela processing plant. Here it will be processed and then fed into the national grid.
Production is carried out entirely under the sea, with no visual impact and near-zero emissions.
Argo Cassiopea’s reserves are estimated at around 10 billion cubic metres of gas, with peak annual production expected to 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas.