page_title: Eni
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Eni / History
caption_attribution_description: Servizio fotografico&#160;: Roma, 1967 / Paolo Monti. - Buste: 1, Fototipi: 30&#160;: Negativo b/n, gelatina bromuro d'argento/ pellicola&#160;; 6x6. - ((Serie costituita da 30 negativi identificati con la numerazione: 22629-22658. Sulla busta R22629 manoscritto: "EUR/ Roma". La suddetta serie è contenuta nella scatola identificata con la numerazione R22440/22745. Sul coperchio iscrizione manoscritta a pennarello: "Località varie". - Fonte: Agenda di Paolo Monti: Monti/ 3 aprile 1966 - 9 marzo 1971/ 12421-16823 (1966-1971), presso Archivio Paolo Monti
context_page_description: Eni S.p.A. is an Italian multinational oil and gas company. Eni is present in 70 countries, and currently is Italy's largest industrial company. It has a market capitalization of €87.7 billion euros, as of July 24, 2008. The Italian Government owns a 30% golden share in the company. Golden shares are special stock shares that allow the government to control a company. 20% of the shares are held through the state Treasury and 10% are held through the Cassa depositi e prestiti.
context_section_description: Agip was started in 1926. After World War II, Enrico Mattei was appointed Special Administrator to close down Agip. With the discovery of the Caviaga gas field in the Po Valley, the process of closing Agip was  halted. Enrico Mattei converted it to a state monopoly (a company with no competition), and renamed it Eni. Eni comes from the company's original full name Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (National Hydrocarbons Agency). Eni was to supply energy to Italy and contribute to the country's industrial development.
  Eni decided that natural gas would supply the energy needed from the crisis of the 1973 oil embargo. They import gas from the Soviet Union and the Netherlands. Snam started the Transmediterranean pipeline, moving gas from the Hassi-R-Mel field in Algeria to the Po Valley. The gas pipeline was more than 2,500 km or 1550 miles long. It started in the Algerian desert and crosses Tunisia. It then crosses the Sicilian Channel at a water depth of over 650 metres or 2100 feet. Next it goes through Sicily and up the length of the entire Italian peninsula.
  In the 1990s, Eni changed from a public corporation into a joint stock company. Most of Eni's share capital was put on the market in four successive public issues. Agip's international work increased with new acquisitions in Algeria, China, Angola, the North Sea and Egypt. New agreements were signed with Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and for the Nigerian and Angolan deep water oil. Eni incorporated Agip, and became an oil and gas producer. Eni's daily oil and gas production reached the equivalent of 1 million barrels of oil.
caption: ENI Palace, Rome, built 1959-1962.[3] Photo by Paolo Monti, 1967.
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