Albert Fauck

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albert Fauck Sr. (* January 2, 1842 in Stolp , Province of Pomerania ; † February 8 or March 1919 in Marcinkowice ) was a veteran of deep drilling technology .

He studied with Robert Waldeck (1856–1901), later worked for William Henry McGarvey in the USA, mining coal and ore. After the Civil War, he worked on wells in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

In 1863 he came to Klęczany as a specialist in a German oil drilling company , where Moritz Baron Brunicki (ego) had spread an oil-friendly atmosphere from 1865, and carried out exploration wells in Klęczany-Starawieś. Fauck made a considerable fortune with crude oil and acquired a mansion with 71 hectares in Marcinkowice.

In 1870 he came to Bóbrka , where he introduced cable drilling.

From 1872 he used the steam drive.

In the 1870s he combined Pierre-Pascal Fauvel's hydraulic system with American core drilling.

Around 1877 he developed a new drill head with which he reached a depth of 250 meters. In 1877 he used spacers for flush drilling. Together with Anton Raky , he used oil rigs similar to the Canadian ones, and in doing so he applied water flushing with remarkable success. He also introduced reverse flushing (counter-current flushing; later perfected by the Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij for counter-flush drilling ).

After Mannesmann had succeeded in producing seamlessly drawn pipes in 1892, which significantly improved the drill rods, Fauck developed the Fauck rapid drilling method from 1898 , with which he initially achieved a borehole depth of 636 meters.

In 1902/03 the Viennese deep drilling company Albert Fauck & Comp. On behalf of the state, a deep well for crude oil north of the Wels station facility of the kk state railways.

Publications

  • Innovations in deep drilling technology ; Felix, 1889
  • Various Methods of Deep Boring

literature

  • Józef Buszko, Walter Leitsch: Austria Poland: 1000 years of relationships ; P. 205f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report of the Geological State Institute for 1919 ( Memento from June 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), accessed on February 27, 2014
  2. ↑ Specjalista wiertniczy, twórca nowych metod wiertniczych (Polish), accessed on February 27, 2014
  3. ^ Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia at Google Books, accessed on February 27, 2014
  4. ↑ The History of The Bobrka Oil Field at eioba.com, accessed February 27, 2014
  5. ^ History of the upstream industry
  6. ^ Article deep drilling at Zeno.org , accessed on February 27, 2014
  7. ↑ Natural gas: from chance discovery to systematic drilling activity in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
personal data
SURNAME Fauck, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fauck, Albert senior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Old master of deep drilling technology
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolp , Pomerania Province
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1919 or March 1919
Place of death Marcinkowice