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.

L’opera di Antonio Stoppani segna l’inizio della ricerca in chiave scientifica moderna nel campo della geologia del petrolio in Italia, e fu stimolata dal rapido sviluppo dell’industria petrolifera americana iniziato alla fine del 1859. Negli anni immediatamente successivi all’Unità d’Italia, diverse aree del Paese videro una fioritura sia dell’esplorazione geologica del sottosuolo, sia dei rilievi di campo, eseguiti dal Corpo delle Miniere e dal Regio Ufficio Geologico, anche se la mappatura delle risorse petrolifere rimase praticamente confinata nelle sole provincie emiliane. Nel primo dopoguerra gli studi si estesero al resto della penisola e, con il riassetto legislativo in tema di proprietà del sottosuolo, questa attività passò quasi integralmente nelle mani dell’Agenzia Generale Italiana Petroli, la compagnia petrolifera di Stato fondata nel 1926.

MACINI P, CONSOLE F, PANTALONI M., (2020). Mapping petroleum resources in Italy: from Antonio Stoppani to the foundation of Agip (1926). PHYSIS, RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI STORIA DELLA SCIENZA, 55(1-2), 33-47.

Mapping petroleum resources in Italy: from Antonio Stoppani to the foundation of Agip (1926)

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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.
2020
MACINI P, CONSOLE F, PANTALONI M., (2020). Mapping petroleum resources in Italy: from Antonio Stoppani to the foundation of Agip (1926). PHYSIS, RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI STORIA DELLA SCIENZA, 55(1-2), 33-47.
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