Eni's Way Magazine n. 2/2005

Eni was first listed on the Stock Exchange on November 28, 1995. Since then, its capitalization has soared from 21 to over 100 billion euros and the State has been joined by other two million shareholders. But going beyond the numbers, the real success of Eni's privatization is represented by the opening of the stock market to so many new investors and operators. Mario Massari, a professor of business finance and the director of the Administration, Finance and Control Institute (IAFC) of Milan's "L. Bocconi" University, talks about it.

The reportage by Mimmo Càndito is about India, the biggest democracy in the world. It is growing at full steam in the wake of economic reforms. And scientific and technological innovation powers the growth of the whole of society.

Europe and the United States are facing competition from the big emerging countries such as India and China. What are the prospects? Robert Solow, Nobel Prize-winner in economics explains.

Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard is the three-P's man: poetry, politics and petroleum. He is among the leading literary figures in Africa, has always nurtured a strong civic commitment, and has been the Minister of Hydrocarbons in the Republic of Congo for eight years.

Mario Morcellini is chairman of the Faculty of Communication Sciences at "La Sapienza" University of Rome describes how after 40 years on from the first experiment on information networks, digital evolution has a vital role to play in social reality. It involves people and families more than businesses and institutions. And it changes thinking and acting habits.

For some time an intense debate has been under way about the medium-long term availability of oil and hydrocarbons. Here are the figures and analyses on the matter by Giorgio S. Frankel, a journalist and a writer in charge of international studies at Turin's Luigi Einaudi Research and Documentation Centre.

Plant automation is a response to the energy challenge. New production technologies have made it possible to develop ever more difficult oilfields at compatible costs.