The first shipment of Eni-produced liquefied natural gas is arriving from Congo. It will depart in the coming days for the floating regasification terminal located in Piombino. CEO Claudio Descalzi and President Giuseppe Zafarana flew to Pointe Noire, economic capital of the Congo, to strengthen the historic axis with the African country (Eni is active in the territory since 1968) and to greet, with Congolese president Denis Sassou-N'Guesso, the start of LNG production. This marks the entry of the Congo into the group of those States (from Algeria to Egypt, from Angola to Mozambique) whose contribution has turned out fundamental in order to allow Eni to carry out the plan of substitution of the Russian gas that vaeva 21 billion in the portfolio of the Italian group. The Congo LNG project was approved in December 2022, and production began only a year later. The project, located in the Marine XII permit, will have a plateau liquefaction capacity of approximately 4.5 billion cubic meters per year once fully operational, eliminating flaring (the process by which excess gas extracted along with oil is burned) from the country's activities. The African country's gas output will continue to be predominantly used to meet the Republic of Congo's electricity generation demands, with excess liquefied and exported.