The scandal of the oil exploration block in Nigeria called OPL-245 is reaching media and investigation levels four times those of the 1992 Tangentopoli. Concern for the related industries of mainly Italian Oil & Gas companies is high. The President of FederPetroli Italia, Michele Marsiglia, intervenes on the subject: “The situation is worrying and not a little. There is a risk of making a big hole in the water with this investigation. Certainly the Judiciary is carrying out its own investigation and it is welcome that the real perpetrators come out, but at the same time important companies and names are involved that I believe are out of place if not for a responsibility solely and exclusively of legal representation, I refer to ENI and Claudio Descalzi ".
Marseille continues “It is a fact that in ENI, since the first assignment and with the Descalzi era, the anti-corruption and corporate policy policies are rigid both in the Consultancy Agreements and for the Supplier Qualification phases, ENI has been around for six years become an armored fort, even a single match must be recorded, justified and argued. There is also talk of a possible bribe that, which would have a value slightly larger than the entire field, in the oil economy this is ridiculous and uneconomical if the facts really prove it. The problem is that the Nigerian story OPL245 focuses on prominent names but also on small and insignificant names of pseudo dealers who for pure advertising improvise super consultants and brokers of world oil, in my opinion the final goal is then to write some book. We are experiencing the same situation as other mega oil scandals that ended in the end without the fact of existence. Some Italian or foreign shrewd in the story will turn up and pay as the law wants. "
The President of FederPetroli Italia, also interviewed on the possible plot against the ENI CEO said: “We want to hit ENI and who is now at the helm of one of the first world oil companies. The investigation falls into a bean during the period of new appointments in Italian investee companies. ENI is a lung that tempts many, but there are no names to date. Certainly, even in ENI there is some unwary, as in many companies, it is now known that some top managers are wandering around the Roman Palaces like a Don Quixote in search of personal consensus to the succession, they waste petrol empty. One thing is certain the trust of the companies we represent and my personal in Claudio Descalzi, sure in his full innocence and in that of his family, are certainly worth more than a Nigerian exploratory block. My words are an act of esteem and not of defense, in these moments they are important ".