Eni's Way Magazine n. 2/2004

The future equilibrium between energy supply and demand is linked to the development of many countries. Massimo Livi Bacci, demography professor at the University of Florence, tells about it.

Claude Mandil, executive director of the Iea, tells the thirty years of  the agency created to confront the first oil crisis and to guarantee energy security.

The interview to Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2000: intellective work is at the basis of a large part of activities. Rather than learning or knowing many things it is more useful to nurture long-term memories.

The Libya, a country between two worlds. The reportage by Mimmo Càndito.

From the Chinese method to the slim well. The article reconstructs the history of petroleum marked by drilling technologies. Over the last years Eni has put great energy into developing drilling technologies. The results are lower environmental impact, reduced costs and times, and a greater efficiency and operating safety.

Ennio Macchi and Paolo Chiesa, professors in the Energetics Department, Milan Politecnico, describes  the Italian electricity system and the difficult challenge to limit overall emissions of greenhouse gasses.

The virtual factory. At the Italgas Presidio San Paolo one can "smell" the spirit of times. Where once gas was produced from coal and petrol, now there's the remote control centre watching over Rome's distribution system. Rome's gasometre has marked over 100 years of the capital's life.

The giant of the Po valley. It is the Caviaga reservoir. Discovered by Agip 60 years ago, it set the beginning of natural gas industry in Italy and of the long history of Eni.