Mario Reali

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'Mario Reali (Mario Lucrezio Reali) is an Italian poet and writer and, at the same time, even one of the most prominent experts in gas and oil.He is one of the very few Western citizens, and the only Italian, who received from Gazprom the highest Russian decoration of the energy industry: "Meritorious Worker of Gas Industry of Russian Federation", in 1999 and in 2005. For 2005 he has been working exclusively on poetry and prose, subjects that he practiced during his whole life together with his management activities. Reali was born in Foiano della Chiana, near Arezzo(Tuscany) on 9th October 1939. After the Diploma in a Classical Liceum in 1960 he moved to Moscow where he obtained the graduation at Pure Chemistry in the highly prestigious Lomosov University, the most important of the country. In Italy, at the University of Bologna he obtains a second Graduation In Chemistry. Here he concentrates his researches into Organic Chemistry theoretical problems. In 1967 he created the Montedison office in the Soviet Union, and continued managing it until 31th March 1981, taking part in the construction of 13 chimical plants. One of them is the Fiat plant in the city of Togliattigrad. From 1981 to 1991 Reali has been the director of Eni ("Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi" - the Italian state oil industry) in USSR. From 1991 to 1993 headed the Moscow Italo--Russian Chamber of Commerce and from 1993 to 2002 he is head of Eni representative -in the Russian Federation and Area Chief of the Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet Union Republic), resigning afterwards due to the divergencies about the company's management of the activities in Russia and Kazakhstan. Despite his resignment, Eni offered him a consulting contract of three years asking him to follow the construction of the well-known "Blue Stream" pipeline, Reali is one of the creators of. Reali has been one of the key-personalities of the deal supply of Russian gas-metan and oil for Italy; he took part in the construction and revamping of the Russian pipeline towards Europe, in particular the big pipeline of Ourengoï-Pomary-Uzhgorod. He has begun the cooperation with Kazakhistan in the development of the giant gas-oilfield of Karachaganakh e Kashagan. He published with Sandro Teti Editore the poem collection: "Tramonto in Europa" (2006) that gained the important award of Santa Marinella, and "L'anima corrotta"(2007). Paolo Lagazzi, literary critic, has written about the first one:"No hypothesis of intelligence, no ideal or spiritual glimmer is untuned in order to find some big answer or in order to oppose a bank to what in places seems, more then the unthinkable order of the things, the whipping up tsunami of the caos". In regard of "L'anima corrotta" Lagazzi has written: "The voice of the poet points us to the corruption of the soul as origin, before the modernity sin, but he reminds us that the amazement and the beauty will be able to opposite to it until the extreme".