View of the Petrobrazi refinery a few months after the fall of the communist regime

Ploiesti, Romania in 1990
View of the Petrobrazi refinery a few months after the fall of the communist regime

Romanian oilmen at work in the 80s.

Photo by Emanuel Tanjala, 1980. 

Petrobrazi refinery in 1980

Ploiesti, Socialist Republic of Romania-approx 1980
Workers in the control room at the Petrobrazi refinery

Romanian steel derrick in the 70s

Ploiesti, Prahova county. 
Socialist Republic of Romania in the 1970s
Local people using an abandoned oil derrick to watch a soccer football game

Romanian oilmen in the 70s

Socialist Republic of Romania in the 1970s. 
First responders after putting up an oil well blowout.

Romanian oil fields during WW II

Screwing on new lengths of oil pipe at a new well. 
The huge swivel which holds the drill pipe when in operation is seen on the left.
June, 18, 1940
A railway yard beside one of the many oil refineries in Romania. The oil is piped down to the large tanks from the wells in the hills in the background, refined and then pumped into tankcars.
Romanian oil fields. A modern oil refinery at Campina
June, 18, 1940
Cracking plant Astra Romania
August, 16, 1943
General view of Astra Romania - the biggest oil refinery in Europe
August, 16, 1943
Refining plant at Brazi in the Prahova oil field north of Bucharest
January, 23, 1940

Romania as a world power petroleum

Romania oil pipes at Constanta on the black sea .March, 21, 1939.
Petroleum factory in Romania in 1935.
Romanian oil fields looking across the oil refining town of Campina. 
In the background are the foothills of the Carpathians and oil storage tanks.
June, 18, 1940. Photo by Kosmos Press Bureau Australasia
One of the huge petroleum tanks from the Romanian oil region
October, 27, 1935
Pump on an oil field in Romania around 1930