In November 2022 we announced the start-up of a new oil field, that is currently producing 10,000 barrels of oil per day (bod), in Zemlet el Arbi concession in the Berkine North Basin. This transaction, announced on 7 September 2022, is of a great strategic value as it further contributes to meeting Europe’s gas needs and to strengthen Eni’s presence in Algeria.Įni's equity production in the country is envisaged to rise to approximately 130,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2023, which confirms its role as the major international energy company operating in Algeria. On February 2023, in alignment with the company’s strategy, addressed to tackle the challenges of the European markets, we closed the acquisition of BP’s business, involving the assets of In Amenas and In Salah, two gas production concessions operated jointly with Sonatrach and Equinor. It will be followed by another PV facility at the Menzel Ledjmet East Project (MLE) production complex, also in the Berkine Basin, whose construction is expected to begin in 2023. Together with an existing 10MW photovoltaic facility launched in 2018, it will double the renewable energy available to power the upstream processes. The photovoltaic plant will be the second one linked to the BRN facility, to further contribute to decarbonize the facility’s hydrocarbon production. It will allow homogeneous comparisons of the behaviour of photovoltaic devices between the two locations, which have different irradiation and climate. The BRN Solar Lab is a twin of the one already built at the Eni Research Center in Novara. They will be tested in the extreme irradiation conditions of southern Algeria, allowing the collection and analysis of data. In line with Eni’s global net-zero strategy and as part of a wider decarbonization plan, to promote the development of renewable energy sources in Algeria, on 17th November 2022 we have laid the first stone of a 10MW photovoltaic plant in Bir Rebaa North (BRN) in the Berkine basin and inaugurated Solar Lab. This laboratory, open to universities and other public institutions for research purposes, is equipped with different types of photovoltaic panels.

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