1930 Unirea fire - 4 wells destroyed

The disaster happened on 6 March 1930, at Gura Ocnitei, during oil pumping. Because one of the oil pipeline broke, all the area was flooded until it reached the steam boilers station when the fire started. The boilers station burned out. Soon the fire spred to 4 oil wells of ''Unirea'' company and also burned 4 oil tanks. One of them, oil well No. 60 UN Viforata, was at 1 kilometer distance up on a hill. This well couldn't be extinguished because was in eruption. Her daily production was 60 tons, Wells destroyed by fire :

Well Name

Spud Date

 Depth

52 UN Viforata           1927        924

55 UN Viforata           1928             925

56 UN Viforata           1928         902

60 UN Viforata            1928         996


Adevărul, 43, nr. 14172, 7 martie 1930
Adevărul, 43, nr. 14173, 8 martie 1930
Boliers station burned.
Adevărul, 43, nr. 14177, 13 martie 1930
Once again the Andreescu brothers were called and they manage to extiguished the well after 8 days of preparation. First they link the well to the pipelines to capture the well production and after pumping drilling mud into the well casing the fire stopped and the gas & oil production was capture. For the brother was the 4 well extinhuished with their device and methods. 
One of the Andreescu brothers top of the well
Latitude and longitude of location : 44.96727517,25.58758802