Adolfo Urso visits the Isab refinery in Priolo: 'Great role in Italy and Europe'

"Isab can play a very important role in Italy and Europe". This was said by the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, after the visit to the Isab refinery in Priolo Gargallo (Syracuse). Urso has convened a table with all the refining companies present in Italy for next Thursday. The meeting, organized together with the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, was convened "as soon as the United States revealed their urgent and important need".

The minister reiterated that the objective of the meeting is "to understand what can be done more and better, in a timely and therefore effective way". It's about understanding "what can be done urgently in Europe and in Italy, according to our skills, to immediately increase production of what we need to meet the needs of businesses, families and consumers in Italy and Europe".

"This plant is the first refinery in Italy, among the first in Europe. The first act of my ministry was a law decree that built a sanitary cordon, a safety cordon around the plant. Today Europe understands better why".

"Europe's problem at the moment - he added - are the refineries which we have wisely, with foresight, responsibility and awareness, protected, while elsewhere in Europe they continued to close. Without understanding that Europe was already surrounded by conflicts which in the meantime have spread from the eastern front to the southern front, cutting the energy supply lines of our continent". Urso recalled that the refinery today is "in even safer hands, because in Italian hands".