A technical office of the TFM was founded and is supported by the Ortona District Office of Eni (DORT) and based in the harbour area of Ortona in the SAF (Deep Water Survey Project) building.
The Project was monitored by the sponsors through a Steering Committee, and accompanied and guided by a Scientific Committee (The President of the Steering Committee was Prof. U. Crescenti, in this period also the president of the Italian National Geological Society (SGI)).