Spokespeople for New Energy One and ENI both declined to comment.
NEOA announced last month that it had agreed an extension of its deadline to agree a business combination to March 2024. It added that its ambition was"to create amongst the first pure-play publicly listed CCUS companies, and a business operating across the CCUS value chain, incorporating carbon management, capture, utilisation, transportation and storage".It did not publicly identify the assets with which it was in talks.