View of a hilly oil field in Sarata, Buzau, Romania, 1899
Astra Romana & Creditul Minier burning oil wells
Moreni - Pascov Astra Romana & Creditul Minier burning oil wells
( photoplate - 1928 )
For years this burning oil well deffied efforts to extinguish it
Oil wel no. 160 Romano-Americana on fire
Romanian authorities kept a constant eye on the stubborn fire which belched black smoke from the center of a forest of derricks at Moreni.
Photograph by Wilhelm Tobien