Documents

The collection of documents stored in the Historical Archive building at Pomezia is the result of a great deal of research and selection begun in the 1990s, when Eni first undertook to safely store and put in order the company documents accumulated over the years. This task involved examining all the company offices, warehouses and decommissioned plant in order to reconstruct the map of the existing historical heritage and subsequently examine, select and gather together all the relevant material in one single place. This activity involved not only collecting together all the documents closely linked to the history of Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (Eni), but also those documents produced by the company that was founded at the beginning of the last century and linked to the research, production and marketing of oil products and to the other production sectors put under the guardianship of Eni as part of the State ownership system.
 
For this reason, the Eni Historical Archive represents a point of reference for anyone who intends to study from the inside the development of the Italian oil industry from its origins and wants to understand the organisation, function and structure of a company originally set up as a State-owned concern. The documents kept in the Historical Archive at Pomezia are analytically described on specially designed software, stored in special containers and conserved on compact shelving and in an environment where the temperature and humidity is constantly monitored. The Deposit Archive periodically hands over to the Historical Archive documents that are no longer being used, with the result that the company's historical records increase on average by 100 metres every year. All documents relating to operations that finished thirty years ago are freely able for consultation by scholars and researchers.