Eni's Way Magazine n. 3-4/2005

Milan's Cathedral is undergoing preservation work.
The articles by Monsignor Ganfranco Ravasi, Prefect of Milan's Ambrosian Library and by Monsignor Luigi Manganini, archpriest of Milan's Duomo, describe the extra-ordinary job for a hystorical monument. A symbol both for religion and the city that holds a unique role in the life of increasingly cosmopolitan Milan.
The article by the director Benigno Mörlin Visconti Castiglione, explain the role of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano: Warding off the risks of ageing is its "mission". With the new integrated work, it can also regain all of the Cathedral's original beauty.
After St. Peter's Basilica, it's the Duomo of Milan's turn to shine again thanks to the know-how of EniTechnologie, via a constructive relationship between oil techniques and restoration methods.

The reportage by Mimmo Càndito is about Portugal that slow decline to social and economic development: like old Europe, it has won its battle and is looking at new growth projects.

The first volume of the Encyclopedia of Hydrocarbons, published by Istituto dell'Enciclopaedia italiana Treccani and sponsored by Eni, has come out. Here follows the foreword to the Encyclopedia, signed by Roberto Poli, Chairman and Paolo Scaroni,  Chief Executive Officer of the group.
The project presented in February 2003 is due to be completed in spring 2008. Ugo Romano tell about the job: bilingual, 220 authors, an unprecedented organizational model. But, above all, an interdisciplinary work that provides in-depth information on technical and scientific innovation and compares analyses and theories.
The first volume of the new encyclopaedia is devoted to the hydrocarbon industry and its evolution. The three editors, Pier Federico Barnaba, Giovanni Brighenti and Renato Mazzei, talk about its values and contents.
Not only exploration and production: also transport has become strategic in the hydrocarbon industry today. From the first volume of the encyclopaedia, here is an excerpt from the chapter that tells how and why.

The interview to Myron Scholes - winner of the 1997 Nobel prize in economics –explains how complying with the regulations affects enterprises and investor behaviour.

Social impact assessment is the response to a problem of ever growing interest: that of managing industrial projects in complex contexts. Thanks to new technical and participative tools like those developed by Eni.