Mapping Petroleum Resources in Italy: From Antonio Stoppani to the Foundation of Agip (1926) (2020)
Macini, P. (Author)
Fabiana Console (Author)
Pantaloni, Marco (Author)
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Volume: 55
Pages: 33-48
Antonio Stoppani marks the beginning of petroleum geology in Italy, stimulated by the developments of the newborn American oil industry (1859). Soon after the Italian unification, petroleum exploration was carried out in many areas of the Country, which generated the elaboration of several technical and statistical reports carried out by the Corps of Mines and the Royal Geological Survey. In this context, petroleum resources mapping concerned only the most productive areas, i.e., the pede-Apenninic areas of some provinces of the Emilia Region, at least until the end of the eighteenth century. After World War I, geological studies spread to the rest of Italy (Abruzzi, Lazio) and, with the unitization of mining laws concerning underground ownership, this activity passed almost entirely into the hands of AGIP, the Italian state-owned oil company founded in 1926.
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