1. Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi was an Argentine military engineer, who is best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum exploration and extraction in Argentina.
21 Facts About Enrique Mosconi
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Enrico Enrique Mosconi founded the town of Villa Gobernador Galvez on 26 February 1888.
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Enrico Enrique Mosconi wanted a son to be a doctor; his mother wanted her son to follow the family military tradition of Angel Canavery, his uncle, who had taken part in the Conquest of the Desert.
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The Enrique Mosconi Canavery's were linked to aristocratic families of Buenos Aires, including the families of Bartolome Mitre, Carlos Pellegrini and Juan Jose Alsina, godfather of General Enrique Mosconi.
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Enrique Mosconi was a friend of Jorge Newbery, a pioneer of Argentine aviation of American descent.
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Enrique Mosconi's great-grandfather was Juan Canaverys, a colonial official who attended the Cabildo Abierto of May 22,1810.
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Enrique Mosconi's uncle Tomas Canavery, was a prominent parish priest who served during the Triple Alliance War.
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When he finished primary school, young Enrique Mosconi entered the Military College of the Nation on 26 May 1891, and graduated from it as an infantry sub-lieutenant on 20 November 1894, at 17 years of age.
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Enrique Mosconi was assigned to take charge of the 7th Infantry Regiment in Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, and he began writing a "Rulebook for Campaign Infantry", with details on the handling of explosives and instructions to build bridges.
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Enrique Mosconi was assigned to the German Army engineering corps, and spent four years embedded in the 10th Battalion of Westphalia, while in postgraduate studies at the Artillery and Engineering Superior Technical School of Charlottenburg.
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In 1909 Enrique Mosconi returned to Argentina as Chief of the 2nd Engineers Battalion, stays a few months and then travels to Europe again in order to acquire materials for the Engineering division.
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Enrique Mosconi came back to Argentina in December 1914, and re-took his post as the chief of the Engineering Regiment until 1915, when he was appointed director of the Esteban de Luca Arsenal.
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On 16 October 1922 Enrique Mosconi was appointed by the president Alvear as Director-General of the Fiscal Petroleum Reserves, where he would stay for eight years, devoting large efforts to increase exploration and development of petroleum extraction.
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In 1925 Enrique Mosconi considered the possibility of a state-private society, but in 1928 he turned back on his proposal and further stated:.
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Enrique Mosconi remarked that, in order to defend Argentine fiscal oil reserves from the foreign companies, there was the need of "a magnificent insensitivity to all demands on the part of private interests, either in accord or not with the collective interests, but even more, what is needed is a political power capable of containing all opposing forces".
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Enrique Mosconi created in 1927 the Alianza Continental advocating economical independence for Latin American states, an association gathering mainly students and intellectuals, and focusing in particular on oil policies.
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Between 1927 and 1928 Enrique Mosconi toured Latin America telling and teaching the authorities about the Argentine experience with regards to fossil fuels, campaigning for an integration of efforts in the matter of petroleum as a resource.
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Enrique Mosconi was the major proponent of a national policy that put natural resources at the service of economic, industrial and social development of the nation.
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Enrique Mosconi defended nationalization of these resources, an absolute fiscal monopoly on surveyance and exploitation, the need for Latin American countries to agree on common actions in this matter, and the passing of resource-related legislation that was advantageous to the interests of the national states.
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In 1929 Enrique Mosconi received Edmundo Castillo, Uruguay's Minister of Industry, and counseled him about the establishment of a national refinery and a state corporation to sell its products.
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That year Enrique Mosconi was awarded a medal by the Academy of Science and Art of Rio de Janeiro, in recognition for his work.