The oil in Italy.
Oil wells and gas in Italy are small, highly fragmented and often located at great depths, or offshore, and this made it difficult to both their location and their exploitation.
Italy is the 49 th largest oil producer in the world.
The oil fields are most important in Italy in Sicily and in its immediate offshore, in particular the field of Ragusa (1500 meters) or that of Gela (discovered in 1956, has similar characteristics to that of Dubrovnik and is 3500 meters deep) and that of Gagliano Castelferrato (discovered in 1960, produces gas and is located about 2000 meters deep).
Besides these there are other fields in the east and Western Europe. There are also one of the most important ones from the Val d'Agri, Basilicata, and the Port of Ravenna in the Adriatic Orsini.
The search for oil continues today, with oil production of around 80,000 barrels per day, while the gas fields is about 15 billion cubic meters. The peak of oil production in Italy was reached in 1997, and the current rate of depletion was 3.1%.The national production represents about 7% of our total oil consumption, the remaining 93% is imported from abroad, therefore, the Italian production, then, is 1% dellla world production, with the remaining reserves, about 1 billion barrels, representing 0.1% of world reserves of crude oil.
The environmental impact of oil extraction.
The extraction of oil has a high environmental impact of extraction is normal activity, which provides seismic exploration, drilling and above all highly polluting waste, is the inevitable and unfortunately common accidents.
The oil extraction is a very expensive operation which has negative consequences for the environment: research offshore dredging disturb the marine environment and damaging the seabed rich in algae in the marine food chain core have a serious impact on the environment.It is therefore important that each of us choose products made without the use of oil (glass, jute, aluminum instead of plastic) and adopts a positive approach nela mobility (LPG, CNG, electric).