Hydrocarbon Discoveries and Improvement of Technologies - Examples from the Exploration in Italy

Summary Looking back at the history of hydrocarbon exploration and production in Italy it is clear the close relationship between the improvement of technologies and exploration and production concepts and the opening of new exploration and production road that have brought to some of the largest HC discoveries at different times. Future explorationists should consider this lesson and keep investing in new technologies and develop new concepts and ideas if they want to unlock the extremely large HC potentials present in all the geological domains and sedimentary basins onshore and offshore Italy.