ALGIERS, Algeria, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Italian energy company Eni said it was extending its pioneering work in Algeria by becoming the first company to wade into the solar energy field.
Claudio Descalzi, the company's chief executive officer, said Eni in the 1970s became the first company to sign up for gas pipeline construction and repeated the feat in the late 1980s when it became the first to sign up for exploration and production work.