Editing Agip (section)

===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]].