OIL synopsis

Director: Massimiliano Mazzotta
Assist. Director: Monica Assari
Director of Photography: Francesco and Massimiliano Mazzotta
Editor: Massimiliano Mazzotta
Camera: Francesco and Massimiliano Mazzotta, Massimiliano Sulis
Music: fotokrafie, JeD, Johnny Melfi, Riccardo Albuzzi, and Unspoken
Voice: Mauro Negri
Sound Effects: fotokrafie.com
Sarroch (Cagliari) (August/November 2007, March/July 2008)
Featuring: the citizens of Sarroch, representatives of various institutions, directors of the SARAS group
Production: Massimiliano Mazzotta
Length: DV_75min

While travelling, on holiday, many people happen to pass by places like Sarroch and quickly hold their noses.
Some people may ponder on the idea of stopping by there for a short time. Getting to know women, men, youngsters, kids, pensioners.
Entering into their workplaces and staying at their homes.
Listening to the inhabitants of this place, their work and life experiences.
Whats it like to live and work here?
Living next to an industry with a strong environmental impact, which doesnt need a great number of employees (excluding maintenance work that is concentrated in certain periods of the year).
Breathing what comes out of the constant flames and chimneys for 365 days Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxide, Sulphur Dioxide, Hydrogen Sulphide emissions which have been monitored for a few years now by stations with different managers: the industry, the Municipality and ARPA, which is currently inactive as it is passing into new management at the Cagliari Provincial Office.
Since the year 2000, waste products from refineries are considered assimilated sources for renewable energy sources (92/CIP 6).
The employees of the SARAS and POLIMERI EUROPA groups receive adequate training on the subject of security and safety in the workplace and theres an efficient emergency escape plan. External employees who are newly employed have two hours training directly in the workplace, depending on the task they must carry out.
For the people of Sarroch there is no safety plan with courses and evacuation drills.
In the past few years there has been a reversal of tendencies, with a return to agriculture (greenhouse farming) and the desire to re-launch the tourist industry, both of these being activities that have seen a rapid decline because of a total lack of guarantee on the quality of products.
The people of Sarroch dont ask that the refinery be closed, but ask that the health of the people inside and outside of the refinery be defended.
NOTES:

The Sarroch pole is today one of the greatest industrial areas in Europe.
Its origins lie in the development of the SARAS refinery in this area at the beginning of the 1960s, thanks to the acute intuition of Angelo Moratti, who generated growth and development in the whole territory from the construction of the plant.
The industrial boom brought considerable advantages to Sarroch and the whole area in general, such as the increase in well-being and demographic growth.
While the population had at first been dedicated to basic agriculture, after the construction of the refinery the relationship between agricultural workers and industrial workers was decidedly inverted over time.
The Sarroch industrial agglomerate extends over a surface area of 734,56 hectares, of which 90% is occupied by the SARAS oil refinery and other petro-chemical and service companies correlated to it.
The oil establishment was founded at the beginning of the 1970s as SARAS Chimica with the participation of SARAS, Eni and Montedison, and then became Enichem (an Eni group company) and changed its name to Nurachem; it changed names various times over the years and from 2002 it became a part of another Eni company, POLIMERI EUROPA, one of the largest existing chemical companies.
In the year 2000 the IGCC plant was inaugurated (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle), managed by SARLUX and controlled by SARAS, getting rid of waste products from the Saras refinery and using them for the production of electricity that is then sold on to the GSE (Electricity company).
The plant receives State funds (92/CIP 6).
The waste products from the refinery are considered to be assimilated sources for renewable energy sources.
Air Liquide is a company that provides liquid oxygen used in the SARLUX gasification plants.
Many small companies have sprung up around these four industrial companies that deal with construction and maintenance of the machinery and plants or other parallel services.


Sarroch Municipality surface area: 67,9 square kilometres.
Inhabitants: 5.240




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