SUSTAINABILITY

Press Review

The media are talking about us: our sustainability in online newspapers. Spotlight on a number of articles in Eni publications: Oil, Oil Journal, Oil Book.

Through its publishing activities, Eni confirms its commitment and encourages information and debate on key issues in energy, geopolitics, the economy and finance.

From newspapers and journals
From the Oil world

Poli: Banks to aid business but balance sheet transparency must be guaranteed
la Repubblica, 9 February 2009

Roberto Poli has been the chairman of Eni for almost seven years. We talked to him at Davos at the end of the World Economic Forum, and his view of the extremely difficult current situation is brief and to the point: "The analysis is now complete, but the cure is different and still evolving in different parts of the world; the prognosis is uncertain and the scenario unclear."
Eni signs the first of three agreements foreseen in the MoU with Sonangol
Milano Finanza, 9 February 2009

Eni has signed with the Angolan oil company Sonangol the first of the three agreements foreseen by the Memorandum of Understanding, signed last August by the two companies, which established the principles and objectives of cooperation between them aimed at encouraging the economic, industrial and social development of Angola.
From Enel to Ikea, the Italy that is hiring
by Nicoletta Picchio
Il Sole 24Ore, 1 February 2009

It's not all cuts. While it is true that the forecasts are negative, the unemployment rate could rise to more than 8%, raising the number of unemployed in Italy to two million, there are those who are bucking the trend, growing and, above all, hiring, helping to absorb the rising daily number of jobs at risk.
Individual success stories, led by the numbers of big Italian companies, but with small businesses also doing their bit, and, in some cases, carving out a leading role. Or entire sectors, such as the main contractor companies in engineering and plant building. Or even retail, from Ikea to Media World, reinforced by the growing importance of price-quality.
Eni opens up a store for the sale of energy
la Repubblica, 30 January 2009

Eni's new energy store will open today in Palermo. An authentic retail outlet for the sale of electricity and targeted mainly at households, who "will be able to access a range of services: including the installation and maintenance of heating, cooking and air conditioning systems."
The car of the future must be highly energy efficient
Il Sole 24Ore, 29 January 2009

Leonardo Maugeri, Eni's head of strategy, believes that the most effective way of reducing the West's dependence on oil producing countries is to improve energy efficiency. And oil? It will become "cheap"...
Oil, Scaroni proposes a new deal for stable demand
Il Sole 24Ore, 25 January 2009

The oil industry "needs cooperation, in the interests of price stability from which both producers and consumers would benefit." This was the claim made by the chief executive of Eni, Paolo Scaroni, in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, for the Global Competitiveness Forum.
New technology for the Upper Adriatic
Il Sole 24Ore, 9 January 2009

Claudio Scajola, the minister for economic development, said: if there is a crisis in natural gas, we need to be able to extract the gas that lies under the Gulf of Venice, "Sharing it with the territories, the minister underlined". And immediately there was a proposal by the Assomineraria, the association of raw materials extraction companies (in particular for oil and gas): with currently available technology, the gas can be extracted without any risk. "We need to try the more remote reservoirs," claims the association's chairman,, Claudio Descalzi.