Bustenari - early oil industry

Montée d'une chaudière à Bustenari - 12 Mai 1904.

160RA - the torch of Moreni

The slopes of the hills, were plainly visible ; oilwells derricks,hamlets and houses could be picked out as easily as at mid-day; and in the centre of this wild, flood-lighted saucer was 160 RA inferno.

Keep the flame alive..

Somewhere in interwar Romania.

Petroleum industry postcards

Petrolea oil well

Oil well No. 1 Petrolea Moreni Nord
spud in 1924 at 881 meters

Walachei Ölfeld Bohrtürme

WK1 Ostfront Câmpina Rumänien Walachei Ölfeld Bohrtürme
 K.u.K Foto WW1 1918

Oil well - blast and flames

Oil well no.18 Campina, Romania -16.08.1925

Campina petroleum exploitation

Campina petroleum exploitation.

Moreni oil lake

Oil lake and wooden derricks at Moreni in 1933.

An oilfield at Bustenari

1938
Bringing to the surface the riches that lie under romanian soil.
"Next to wheat and corn that flourish on her fertile plains, Rumania's greatest source of wealth is petroleum, which is found in Moldavia, east of the Carpathians, and in Wallachia, south of the Transylvanian Alps. In this photograph we see some of the derricks erected over the wells at Bustenari in Wallachia. The oil is conveyed through a huge pipe to Constanza, a port on a Black Sea where there are great refineries, and from there it is shipped to other lands. With its oil-sodden ground and its derricks, a petroleum field is very ugly"

Tubing noodles

Well no. 2402 Recea in 1976
New Pool Wildcat drilled in 1976 to 2867 m.
 400 meters of Ø 2 3/8" tubing blow out of well by a major eruption.

Astra Romana wooden derricks

Astra Romana wooden derricks in Campina.

War ! What is it good for ?

Armoured personnel carriers Sd.Kfz. 251 from 16 Panzer-Division in Romanian Oil Fields.

Ash Valley

Moreni, 1910.

Ploiesti - oil well pumping

Oil well pumping. Ploiesti, Romania 12 October 1956.

Romania oil center - Moreni

Moreni oilfield view from Schela Mare

Constanta oil terminal

Constanta oil terminal in 1939.

Gura Ocnitei oil wells

Gura Ocnitei oilfield.

Gahita gusher

Oil well gusher. Gahita, Campina, 1907. 

Oil mines

Derna Tataros, Bihor bitumen mine in 1923.
Zielinski Wladislaw and his companions at 
Sarata Monteoru oil mine in 1932.

Early oil exploitation

Oil exploitation with "hecna cu cal" system.
 Oil pits in 1907.
Digging an oil well in 1907.