This article discusses not from a theoretical economic standpoint, as is done in the first paper, but more from practical local points of view th: arguments in favour of State monopolization of the Italian hydrocarbon gas industry, at any rate as far as the Po hydrocarbon deposits are concerned.
A survey is given of the production and requirements of natural gas. In the course of 1951 a daily production of 10,000,000 m3 is expected with a heat equivalent of about 30% of Italy's total imported coal and fuel oil and about 50% of the heat requirements, for which gas could eventually be supolied.
However, the gas deposits until now have been practically concentrated in Northern Italy and this limits the field in which imported fuels may be replaced as compared with what would be possible with a wider geographic distribution of the deposits.
The replacement will neither be as speedy nor as easy as originally expected. A small number of large consumers that can easily be reached, such as factories and electricity works, are potential consumers of more than half of the gas produced. In case the large number of small consumers has to be reached a vast network of pipelines has to be constructed, with high dapitg1 investment and big material requirements in steel and machinery.
It is feared that private enterprise will only give its attention to the big consumers, leaving the large number of small consumers in the second place.
Moreover, the material requirements from other industries have to be seen in the co-ordinated It a 1' ian plan of new construction and reconstruction. These problems will come into the scope of Government activity and/or supervision.
Thus not only from a theoretical standpoint. but * Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli (A.G.I.P.), Rome. also for reasons dictated by practical local circumstances the conclusion is that a sound development of the Italian natural gas industry will be more easily realized by intensifying and strengthening the activity of the large and energetic state organization than by dividing that activity among numerous private enterprisers.
et théorique pris en considération dans la première communication, celle-ci discute les arguments pratiques et locaux p1, aidant en faveur de la monopolisation par l'Etat de l'industrie italienne des hydrocarbures gazeux, en tout cas en ce qui concerne les gisements d'hydrocarbures du Pô.
L'auteur expose dans une vue d'ensemble la production et les besoins de gaz naturel. Pour l'année 1951 on s'attend à une production quotidienne de 10.000.000 m3, ayant un équivalent calorifique de 30% environ de l'importation totale de l'Italie de charbon et de fuel oil et d'environ 50% de ses besoins en calorique pour lesquels on pourrait éventuellement fournir du
