
Ministers Urso and Pichetto have convened refining and production companies for 8 October to evaluate the increase in national production and mitigate the effects of the international scenario on supply.
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The relevant ministers address the effects of the international scenario on energy supply.
The Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, and the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto, have called together companies operating in the refining and production of goods and derivative products sector for Thursday 8 October.
The objective, explains a note, is "to evaluate how national refineries can increase the production of the main products to mitigate the effects of the current international scenario on the country's supply".
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