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==History== In 1924, [[Sinclair Oil]], a U.S. oil company, and the Italian Ministry of National Economy created a fifty-year joint venture agreement to explore oil in [[Emilia-Romagna]] and [[Sicily]], over an area of 40,000 km<sup>2</sup>.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Wireless To the New York |date=1924-05-17 |title=OIL RIGHTS IN ITALY GIVEN TO SINCLAIR; Mussolini Makes Announcement, Saying That Italian Exploration Failed. FASCISTI EXPEL A LEADER Massimo Rocca, 'Legalist," Is Read Out of the Party After Premier's Return to Rome. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1924/05/17/archives/oil-rights-in-italy-given-to-sinclair-mussolini-makes-announcement.html |access-date=2022-03-09 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 40% of the capital was held by the ministry, all expenditure was incurred by Sinclair Oil and 25% of profits went to the Italian ministry. The political opposition, headed by [[Giacomo Matteotti]] and [[Don Sturzo]], alleged that the joint venture was damaging to the nation and started a controversy which led to suspicions of corruption; Matteotti indeed was killed two days before he was due to give a speech on this issue. Don Sturzo continued the controversy, stating that a public company was the only way to maintain national energy independence. [[Coal]] in Italy was scarce and of poor quality.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Italy - Resources and power {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/Resources-and-power |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> It was imported from abroad at prices that weighed on Italyβs trade balance and limited industrial growth. [[Power plants]], which were not very developed and mainly concentrated in the north of the country, could not satisfy the needs of energy. ===The constitution of the company and the ''ad aziendam'' laws=== With a [[royal decree]] on April 3, 1926, the government of the [[Kingdom of Italy (1861β1946)|Kingdom of Italy]] established the ''Azienda generale italiana petroli'' (''Agip''), a [[joint-stock company]], to conduct all activities relating to the [[petroleum]] industry. 60 percent of the share capital was held by the [[Ministry of the Treasury (Italy)|Ministry of the Treasury]], 20% by [[Istituto Nazionale Assicurazioni]] (INA), and the remaining 20% by the Italian Social Insurance fund. The first president was [[Ettore Conti]], a contractor in the electricity sector.<ref>{{Cite web |last=enrico |date=2022-05-19 |title=Enrico Mattei: From Agip to ENI |url=https://www.neperos.com/article/rc511cfaa2eb4ca7 |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=Neperos |language=en}}</ref> The establishment of the company was attributed by many analysts to [[Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata]], Ministry of Finance, and [[Giuseppe Belluzzo]], Ministry for the National Economy. Volpi di Misurata, however, was directly involved in oil-related interests, working together with [[Fiat Automobiles|FIAT]] of [[Giovanni Agnelli]], and with the financial backing of [[Banca Commerciale Italiana]], which had searched unsuccessfully for oil in Emilia-Romagna. In 1927 a ''Mining Act'' was enacted, which gave the ownership of the [[subsoil]] to the State and imposed the rule that any oil-related activity was subject to government authorization and/or grant. Agip experienced difficulties after the [[crisis of 1929]] but began to flourish in the 1930s. In 1933 a new law was issued that restrained protectionist [[refineries]] and Agip could operate with greater ease in this area. ===Early stages and development=== Agip had a facility for refining at [[Fiume]] and in 1936 it took over a [[Oil refinery|refinery]] at [[Porto Marghera]], owned by Volpi di Misurata. Soon after it made an agreement with Montecatini to create a joint enterprise, [[Azienda Nazionale Idrogenazione Combustibili|Anic]] (Fuel Hydrogenation National Company), which was to pursue the derivation of fuel by hydrogenation of [[brown coal]]. Anic built two refineries to process the oil extracted in [[Albania]] from [[Azienda Italiana Petroli Albanesi]] (AIPA), a subsidiary of Agip. However, the Albanian oil was of poor quality and its processing proved uneconomical. Simultaneously, however, because of the costs to support colonial campaigns, Agip had to exit some foreign investments, in particular their exploration campaigns in [[Iraq]]. It was the explorer [[Ardito Desio]] who found oil in [[Libya]] and in 1939 came the so-called "Petrolibia operation", in which Agip was linked to FIAT, with which the year before it had created an Italian company for synthetic fuels, to explore the possibility of obtaining gasoline from [[synthetic chemistry]].
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