By Museimpresa
A Nation to rebuilt
At the end of the World War II the new Italian Government decides that Agip, the State energy company, should be dismantled and sold due to its poor performance
Mattei's vision
The new Commissioner Enrico Mattei, however, has other intentions: he studies, invests, insists. He bets on methane pipelines and increases the exploration in the Po Valley
Po Valley, the 'Open Safe'
In Caviaga and Cortemaggiore two large deposits are discovered: Italy has its own energy. The National Hydrocarbons Agency (Eni) was born in 1953 and Enrico Mattei was its first president
The Six-Legged Dog
A national competition selected in 1952 the images for Eni, Agipgas and their respective products. The famous Six-legged Dog wins as the logo for petrol, but it immediately also becomes the company image
Search again
Italian energy needs are growing like never before. Eni starts looking for partners in abroad countries and entering into competition with the major oil companies
Mattei's Formula
Mattei's new type of agreement, which stays in history with his name, involves the producing country equally in the management of the local energy company, showing an 'Italian way to energy' made up of people and peoples
Grow up together
From 1953 to 1962 the Italian economic, technological and social development was so impetuous that it gave its name to a historical period, the 'Italian Economic Miracle'
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