Enrique Mosconi
| Enrique Mosconi | |
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| Director of YPF. | |
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In office 1922–1930 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi Canavery 21 February 1877 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 4 June 1940 (aged 63) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Resting place | La Recoleta Cemetery |
| Nationality |
 Argentine
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| Relations |
Juan Canaverys (his ancestor) Tomás Canavery (uncle). |
| Occupation | Administration |
| Profession | Military Engineer |
| Religion | Catholicism |
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Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi (21 February 1877 – 4 June 1940) was an Argentine military engineer, who is best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum exploration and extraction in Argentina.
Mosconi was born in Buenos Aires to Enrico Mosconi, an Italian engineer hired to build railroads, and María Juana Canavery, an Argentine of Irish descent. Enrico Mosconi founded the town of Villa Gobernador Gálvez on 26 February 1888. Enrico Mosconi wanted a medical doctor son; his mother wanted her son to follow the family military tradition of Ángel Canavery, his uncle, who had taken part in the Conquest of the Desert. Mosconi had two older sisters and two younger brothers. Being only two years old the family moved to Italy, coming back a few years later after the death of Mosconi's mother. Enrico Mosconi remarried to Countess Maria Luisa Natti.
Once finished primary school, young 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. He was assigned to take charge of the 7th Infantry Regiment in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, and he began writing a "Rulebook for Campaign Infantry", with details on the handling of explosives and instructions to build bridges. In 1896 he was promoted and transferred to Buenos Aires, where he started the Engineering career.
In 1899 he performed topographical and statistical surveys of the Andes in the province of Mendoza, and the next year he took part in the studies in the Patagonia to establish a strategically important railroad system in Neuquén.
In 1901 he graduated from the School of Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires as a civil engineer. His doctoral thesis dealt with a project to dam the Nahuel Huapi Lake and installing a valve to regulate the flow of the Limay River and the Río Negro, in Neuquén, in order to make them navigable.
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