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Eni CEO calls for ETS suspension to help refineries

  • Mercados: Crude oil, Emissions, LPG, Oil products
  • 14/10/26

The chief executive of Italy's integrated Eni has called on the EU to suspend its emissions trading system (ETS) until the conflicts in Ukraine and the Gulf are resolved.

"[The ETS is] a cage that is too expensive for our industry," Claudio Descalzi said on Wednesday. He said Europe is unable to produce the jet fuel and diesel it needs, and pointed to "a 30-40pc drop in Russian refining output… while products going through Hormuz are around 50pc what they were pre-war."

Descalzi said extra costs for chartering tankers and securing insurance, triggered by the US-Iran war, had added $20-30/bl to the cost of crude.

His comments come a day before European leaders are scheduled to meet in Brussels to discuss a series of issues, including energy and institutional reform. Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni said today that she and other member states would call for reform of the ETS mechanism to prevent high energy costs triggering permanent damage to European industry.

The European Commission said in March that the US-Iran war would not prompt reform of the ETS, although it also said there would be no release from emergency oil stocks, which has since happened.

"Given that [commission head Ursula] von der Leyen has said we need to find a way to revitalise our refineries, Europe has to include them in its taxonomy scheme so as to boost access to funding, remove the taxes and have less stringent rules for emissions," Descalzi said.

"We need to convince those who want to invest in refineries here that Europe is serious," he said. "We need a long-term strategy… for the next 15-20 years."


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