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As a Founding Member of MITEI, Eni will also support a range of other research projects at the Institute spanning the energy spectrum from traditional oil and gas to methane hydrates to global change to transportation options. This portfolio will include a large research project in multi-scale reservoir science for enhanced oil recovery.

Eni will also support MITEI's Energy Research Seed Fund program to fund novel energy research concepts generated from a twice-yearly campus-wide solicitation. In addition, Eni will support 10 "Eni-MIT Energy Fellows" at the Institute for each year of its five-year commitment.

Leonardo Maugeri, Group Senior Vice President for Strategies and Development at Eni, welcomed the new collaboration as "a great opportunity to team Eni's expertise with MIT's first-class ability in fostering new research and education in science and technology in order to jointly develop innovative, powerful tools, technologies and solutions to address global energy needs and challenges."

Professor Ernest J. Moniz, director of MITEI, also applauded the collaboration. "This is an exciting partnership, notable for its boldness in addressing a multiplicity of key challenges at the energy-environment frontier. We deeply appreciate Eni's confidence in MIT faculty and students to carry out this research and educational agenda in close cooperation with Eni's researchers."

As part of its Founding Member research portfolio, Eni will also be supporting research in evaluation methodologies for the commercial potential of energy start-ups and novel energy technologies. Moniz noted that "to meet the world's energy needs we will likely need partnerships between entrepreneurial energy technology innovation companies and companies with global distributio
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