Oil production in Germany

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The currently most important German oil field, Mittelplate, is located in the middle of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park. In the background the Büsum skyscraper.
Blowout preventer in the German Petroleum Museum in Wietze
Oil derrick

The oil production in Germany has history of technology as economic historical significance. In Wietze , 20 km west of Celle , industrial oil production began as early as 1858. At that time Georg Christian Konrad Hunäus had what was probably the world's first oil well. At times, up to 80 percent of the national demand was produced by the Wietzer oil field. Today's funding is mainly focused on the federal states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein and covers around 2.5–3% of German demand. In Germany, an oil production maximum of 8.2 million tons was already reached in 1968. Around 2.2 million tons are currently being extracted each year.

Delivery rates

In the Federal Republic of Germany, 2.22 million tons of crude oil including a condensate share of 0.6 percent were produced in 2017. This corresponds to a total reduction of 5.8 percent compared to 2016. In 2017, crude oil production contributed 2.0 percent to covering the consumption of crude oil of 109.4 million t in Germany.

The estimated safe and probable crude oil reserves in Germany amounted to 28.3 million tonnes of crude oil on January 1, 2018 and are thus 3.5 million tonnes or 11.1 percent below those of the previous year. The economically and technically ineligible as well as the undetected but geologically possible oil resources were 20 million tons in 2005.

Development of funding in the old federal states until reunification

In the old federal states, the following annual funding was provided in tonnes:

year Oil production
1947 576.611
1948 635.240
1949 841,576
1950 1,118,613
year Oil production
1951 1,336,685
1952 1,755,389
1953 2,188,696
1954 2,666,314
1955 3,147,234
1956 3,506,219
1957 3,959,641
1958 4,431,596
1959 5,102,758
1960 5,529,892
year Oil production
1961 6,204,463
1962 6,776,353
1963 7,382,712
1964 7,672,618
1965 7,883,893
1966 7,868,217
1967 7,927,193
1968 7,982,136
1969 7,875,727
1970 7,535,221
year Oil production
1971 7,420,354
1972 7,098,311
1973 6,637,661
1974 6,191,061
1975 5,741,386
1976 5,524,257
1977 5,401,139
1978 5,058,943
1979 4,773,515
1980 4,631,343
year Oil production
1981 4,458,967
1982 4,225,758
1983 4,115,854
1984 4,055,380
1985 4.105.150
1986 4,017,014
1987 3,792,834
1988 3,937,492
1989 3,770,096
1990 3,605,667

Development of funding after reunification

year Oil production
in tons
Active
fields
1991 3,486,998 110
1992 3,303,634 105
1993 3,055,901 94
1994 2,946,290 84
1995 2,958,794 75
1996 2,851,925 71
1997 2,820,398 66
1998 2,894,526 60
1999 2,740,074 49
2000 3,119,593 48
year Oil production
in tons
Active
fields
2001 3,444,300 46
2002 3,704,525 46
2003 3,808,946 46
2004 3,516,318 44
2005 3,572,462 44
2006 3,515,401 44
2007 3,415,374 44
2008 3,053,998 45
2009 2,800,063 50 *
2010 2,511,174 50
year Oil production
in tons
Active
fields
2011 2,677,136 49
2012 2,621,352 49
2013 2,638,379 49
2014 2,429,789 50
2015 2,412,643 50
2016 2,355,028 50
2017 2,218,406 50
2018 2,066,642 51
  • 2009 Increase in the number of fields due to the rearrangement of the fields and a new field.

Oil production 1997

In 1997, 2,820,398 tons of
crude oil were produced in Germany .

state Promotion
in tons
Share
in%
Baden-Württemberg 4,202 0.15
Bavaria 46,043 1.63
Brandenburg 11,686 0.41
Hamburg 25.121 0.89
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 13.208 0.47
Lower Saxony 1,894,559 67.17
North Rhine-Westphalia 705 0.03
Rhineland-Palatinate 145.325 5.15
Schleswig-Holstein 679,549 24.09
total 2,820,398 100

Oil production 2011

In 2011, 2,677,136 tons of
crude oil were produced in Germany .

state Promotion
in tons
Share
in%
Baden-Württemberg - -
Bavaria 32.4068 1.2
Brandenburg 16,014 0.6
Hamburg 18,651 0.7
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 4,071 0.2
Lower Saxony 966.220 36.1
Rhineland-Palatinate 170.019 6.4
Schleswig-Holstein 1,469,757 54.9
total 2,677,136 100

Oil production 2014

In 2014, 2,429,789 tons of
crude oil were produced in Germany .

state Promotion
in tons
Share
in%
Baden-Württemberg - -
Bavaria 42,717 1.8
Brandenburg 8,898 0.4
Hamburg 11,023 0.5
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 4,686 0.2
Lower Saxony 825.088 34.0
Rhineland-Palatinate 192.497 7.9
Schleswig-Holstein 1,344,880 55.3
total 2,429,789 100

Oil production 2016

In 2016, 2,355,028 tons of
crude oil were produced in Germany .

state Promotion
in tons
Share
in%
Baden-Württemberg 251 0.0
Bavaria 37.008 1.6
Brandenburg 9,910 0.4
Hamburg 12,772 0.5
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 3,677 0.2
Lower Saxony 802.439 34.1
Rhineland-Palatinate 187.494 8.0
Schleswig-Holstein 1,301,478 55.3
total 2,355,028 100

Oil production 2017

In 2017, 2,218,406 tons of
crude oil were produced in Germany .

state Promotion
in tons
Share
in%
Baden-Württemberg 185 0.0
Bavaria 45,236 2.0
Brandenburg 5,419 0.2
Hamburg 15.184 0.7
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 4,367 0.2
Lower Saxony 788.046 35.5
Rhineland-Palatinate 126,635 5.7
Schleswig-Holstein 1,233,334 55.6
total 2,218,406 100

Oil production 2018

In 2018, 2,066,642 tons of
crude oil were produced in Germany .

state Promotion
in tons
Share
in%
Baden-Württemberg 176 0.0
Bavaria 42,294 2.0
Brandenburg 5,472 0.3
Hamburg 12,330 0.6
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 3,652 0.2
Lower Saxony 733,658 35.5
Rhineland-Palatinate 148,483 7.2
Schleswig-Holstein 1,119,946 54.2
total 2,066,642 100

Support areas

Horsehead pump on the former Varel oil field.

The oil fields of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony together produced 2.0 million tons of oil in 2017. That is 91 percent of total German production. With the Mittelplate oil field, Schleswig-Holstein has a share of 55.6 percent of total production, followed by Lower Saxony with 35.5 percent. The share of Rhineland-Palatinate with the Römerberg oil field follows with 5.7 percent.

In 2017, the shares by production region were 55.9% north of the Elbe (Mittelplate), 5.0% between Elbe and Weser, 8.3% between Weser and Ems and 22.5% west of the Ems. Other areas were in the Upper Rhine Valley (5.7%), in the Alpine Foreland (2.0%), in the Oder / Neisse-Elbe area (0.4%) and in the North Sea with 0.1%.

Offshore oil production

A6-A conveyor platform

The first German offshore oil production took place from 1984 to 2000 in the Kiel Bay in the Schwedeneck-See field . A total of 3.5 million tons of oil were produced here. After funding was discontinued in the summer of 2000, the two funding platforms were dismantled and disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner. In 2000, the production of natural gas was started in field A6 / B4 in the so-called duck bill of the German North Sea. This also produces crude oil in the form of condensate.

Active fields

Oil production (including condensates from natural gas production)

North Sea oil fields Found year Funding
2011 in t
Funding
2017 in t
Total production
in tons
up to 2017
A6 / B4 1974 12,725 2,513 802.462

In the natural gas field A6 / B4, condensable gas components occur during the extraction, which are further processed like crude oil. These are recorded under the oil production.

North of the Elbe

Mittelplate production platform

Mittelplate , Germany's largest oil field, is located in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park off Friedrichskoog . Since 1987 the drilling and production island and the Dieksand land station in Friedrichskoog have been producing crude oil from various sandstone layers in the Jura at a depth of 2000 to 3000 m. With 1.2 million t of oil from 28 production wells, the field produced over 55 percent of German oil yields in 2017. More than 30 million tons of oil had been produced by 2015; 20 to 25 million t are still recoverable.

Mittelplate is a stationary oil exploration and production platform. The crude oil extracted there is first sent via a pipeline to the Dieksand land station and then to Brunsbüttel for further processing .

Active fields

Oil production (including condensates from natural gas production)

Oil fields north of the Elbe Found year Funding
2011 in t
Funding
2016 in t
Total production
up to 2016
in tons
Mittelplate / Dieksand 1980 1,457,004 1,299,772 33,516,947
Reitbrook - Alt 1937 9,481 2,240 2,595,073
Reitbrook - West / Allermöhe 1960 4,276 5,242 3,414,085
Condensate from natural gas production - - -
From abandoned deposits 20,044,746
Total area 1,470,761 1,307,254 59,570,851

Or / Neisse-Elbe

The funding region Oder / Neisse-Elbe extends between the eponymous rivers in the new federal states.

Active fields

Horse head pump in the Lütow oil field

Oil production (including condensates from natural gas production)

Oil fields Oder / Neisse - Elbe Found year Funding 2011
in t
Funding 2016
in t
Total production
in tons
up to 2016
Kietz 1987 16,014 9,910 295,692
Lutow 1965 3,019 2.173 1,348,679
Mesekenhagen (Kirchdorf-) 1988 1,052 1,504 116,969
Condensate from natural gas production - - -
From abandoned deposits 1,554,781
Total area 20,085 13,587 3,316,120

Fields and history of the funding region

Since the 1960s, test drillings have taken place in various locations in the north of the GDR ; for example on the island of Hiddensee . The first occurrence that was discovered on the territory of the GDR (1960) was in Reinkenhagen near Grimmen . Funding was only stopped in 1996. With around 1.25 million tons of oil produced from 1966 to 1990, the most important oil deposit was in Lütow on the island of Usedom , the exploitation of which is currently (as of 2019) still ongoing.

The GDR was considered to be the most intensively prospected country in the world because, due to the lack of foreign exchange, they wanted to break free from their dependence on Russian oil (but could hardly). On behalf of Walter Ulbricht , an attempt was made to emulate the Federal Republic, which at that time still funded over 30% of domestic needs itself. Another deposit with particularly high-quality crude oil was located in the east of the Zingst peninsula , where only small amounts were extracted. This was largely unknown to the civilian population as it was a restricted military area. The oil extracted here was transported by tanker truck and later by rail to the Soviet Union , where it was needed for space travel. Presumably, therefore, it was also called "white oil".

The oil price shock took place in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1973. The oil crisis came, because of the different transfer prices (the five-year average of the world market price) in the RGW , in East Germany until 1977 and tightened again in the early 1980s on. Even after the external oil price increases, the price at the petrol stations of the state-owned mineral oil company VEB MINOL was not increased; it was set by the party leadership of the SED . It was a uniform 1.40 M per liter for VK-79 , 1.50 marks for “VK-88”, 1.65 marks for “VK-94” and 1.40 marks for “DK” (diesel fuel). In the 1980s the production of "VK-79" was stopped and "VK-88" was renamed to "Normal" and "VK-94" to "Extra". The prices remained unchanged.

Since 2002 crude oil and natural gas have been extracted in Brandenburg's so far only oil production field near Manschnow (municipality of Küstriner Vorland , district of Märkisch-Oderland ). The natural gas is processed on site in the block-type thermal power station , while the oil is transported by truck to Schwedt / Oder to the PCK refinery . The initially higher production volumes fell to 9,910  t oil and 4.7  million   gas in 2016 and 5,419 t oil and 2.6 million m³ gas in 2017 .

In 2017 , a production permit for oil and gas near Guhlen ( Schwielochsee municipality , Dahme-Spreewald district , Brandenburg state ) was granted. Two exploratory drillings had been carried out by the beginning of 2018 . The prerequisites for future oil and gas production, however, are a corresponding spatial planning process that has yet to be carried out and a subsequent successful plan approval process .

Elbe-Weser

In the Elbe-Weser production region, oil deposits have been exploited for a long time, but the production of the oil fields here was gradually stopped due to inefficiency. Today only a few oil fields in the region are extracted (e.g. Rühme field near Braunschweig ).

Active fields

Oil production (including condensates from natural gas production *)

Elbe - Weser oil fields Found year Funding 2011
in t
Funding 2016
in t
Total production
in tons
up to 2016
Eddesse (-Nord) / Abbensen 1876 2,043 1,612 897.922
Eldingen 1949 7,314 6,810 3,335,278
Hankensbüttel 1954 26,363 18,779 15,082,713
Höver 1956 1,473 1,255 355,621
Knesebeck 1958 13,107 9,372 3,484,418
Lüben 1955 7.199 6.160 1,953,618
Lüben - West / Bodenteich 1958 11.001 8,833 569,963
Nienhagen 1861 3,108 5,547 6,966,634
Ölheim - South 1968 9,560 6,647 1,563,899
Boast 1954 25,531 17,855 2,284,345
Sinstorf 1960 5,720 6,183 3,024,105
Thönse (Jura) * 1952 2,516 2,990 130.118
Pre-hop 1952 18,454 15,314 3,016,675
Condensate from natural gas production 3,003 2,957 184,379
From abandoned deposits 34,225,868
Total area 137.984 110.316 77,525,114

The Thönse natural gas field (Jura) produces over 1,000 tons of condensate per year and is therefore listed separately.

Wietzer oil field

In Wietze , 20 km west of Celle , industrial oil production began as early as 1858 in Lower Saxony. At that time Georg Christian Konrad Hunäus had what was probably the world's first oil well. At times, up to 80 percent of the national demand was produced by the Wietzer oil field. In 1963 the conveyor systems were shut down. The oldest oil museum in the world has been located in the village since 1970 .

Between Weser and Ems

Active fields

Oil production (including condensates from natural gas production)

Oil fields between Weser and Ems Found year Funding 2011
in t
Funding 2016
in t
Total production
in tons
up to 2016
Barenburg 1953 29,543 29,910 7,087,417
Bockstedt 1954 16,373 14,582 3,648,967
Börger - Werlte 1977 - 47 128,675
Bramberge 1957 114,554 77,455 19.979.205
Düsten / Aldorf (Jura) 1952 5,300 4,809 2,695,352
Düsten / Wietingsmoor (Valentis) 1954 13,829 9,743 3,976,096
Big Lessen 1969 10,970 11,345 3,472,664
Hagen 1957 340 694 140.722
Harm 1956 - 84 343,874
Hemelte - West 1951 4.164 4.113 2,306,242
Liener - Cooking 1953 577 1,050 121,393
Loeningen 1960 5,342 5,782 745.350
Matrum 1982 1,403 1,833 191.052
Siedenburg 1957 5,342 4,908 1,104,518
Sögel 1983 83 - 28,825
Sulingen (Valendis) 1973 5,576 51 1,026,435
Voigtei 1953 13,942 11,647 4,201,571
Wehrbleck / Wehrbleck-Ost 1957 8,699 10,506 2,739,255
Puppy / Bollermoor 1957 5,189 3,844 1,994,542
Condensate from natural gas production 1,477 421 76,730
From abandoned deposits 3,705,643
Total area 242,455 192.825 59,746,720

Disused fields

Decommissioned oil fields between Weser and Ems Found year Given up Total funding in t
Aldorf - SW 1960 1964 22,668
Ashes 1960 ? ?
Dickel - East 1959 1966 3,974
Dickel - Wealden 1953 1966 42,817
Diepholz 1958 1968 39,821
Etzel 1942 1959 53,997
Ferment 1954 1969 8,807
Oythe 1956 1970 8,242
Quakenbrück 1950 1967 50,188
Vechta 1957
Molbergen 1953 1978
Ostenwalde 1953 1995 456.342
City Country 1956 1995 306.222
Brass 1975 Wet gas
Elsfleth 1956 1990
Harm 1956 2007 343.153
Sögel 1983 2011 28 825

Varel

To the south of Varel , in Jaderaußendeich belonging to the municipality of Jade in the Wesermarsch ( Lower Saxony ), the production of crude oil began in 1957. At a depth of 1,700 m, they found what they were looking for in a deposit in the Dogger sandstone (Dogger = Middle Jura ). The oil route , on which an old oil pump still stands today, is a reminder of the production in the Varel oil field that was stopped in 1993 . A total of 856,000 tons of crude oil were produced from 16 production and 4 auxiliary wells. In 1996 the Varel oil field was released from mining supervision by the Meppen Mining Authority after the backfilling and recultivation was completed .

Western Emsland

Wintershall's crude oil production in Emlichheim

The most important oil fields after Mittelplate are to the west of the Ems , near the Dutch border. The Rühle development area is in the Bourtanger Moor , near Twist , west of Meppen . There are also development areas in Emlichheim and Georgsdorf in the neighboring county of Bentheim . There are also oil pumps in Schöninghsdorf in Emsland . The reserves there were discovered in 1942 and have been mined since then. However, the oil produced there is so viscous that it first has to be pumped from the depths to the surface. Due to the machine structure reminiscent of a horse and the nodding movement, the pumps are also popularly referred to as horse head pumps and have become a landmark of the landscape. In addition to peat extraction, oil production and processing is the predominant industry in the Emsland moors .

Active fields

Oil production (including condensates from natural gas production)

Oil fields west of the Ems Found
year
Promotion in tons
2011 2016 total until 2016
Adorf 1948 15,646 7.233 1,780,860
Emlichheim 1944 163,349 153.317 10,752,756
Georgsdorf 1944 110,500 80,691 19.157.832
Meppen 1960 24,123 21,546 3,280,518
Rings 1998 15,536 42,482 377.207
Rühle 1949 230.466 179,760 34,875,544
Scheerhorn 1949 29,982 18,747 8,944,318
Condensate from natural gas production 1,072 814 350,250
From abandoned deposits 3,196,059
Total area 590,674 504,589 82,715,344

Disused fields

Oil fields west of the Ems Found year Given up Total funding in t
Emlichheim - West 1957 1966 43,405
Emlichheim - south 1959 1968 11,020
Lever sea 1955 1994 659.074
Lingen 1942 1997 2,400,000

Upper Rhine Valley

Active fields

Horse head pump near Eich (Eich-Königsgarten oil field)
Oil fields in the Upper Rhine Valley Found
year
Promotion in tons
2011 2017 total until 2017
Eich - King's Garden 1983 7,376 5,651 1,390,123
Landau 1955 21,050 13,915 4,548,488
Römerberg 2003 140.980 107.069 1,264,835
Rülzheim 1984 613 - 42,035
Condensate from natural gas production
From abandoned deposits 1,641,345
Total area 170.019 187.494 8..886.826

Römerberg oil field

The Römerberg oil field in the Upper Rhine Valley was found while sinking a geothermal well. In 2003 the operating company unexpectedly stumbled upon oil in the rocks of the Triassic. There are currently (2017) six wells in operation there. In the ninth year of operation, the annual production was given as 107 069 t of oil. This makes Römerberg the oil field with the fourth highest production in Germany.

Hessian Ried

Horse head pump on the Kühkopf near Stockstadt am Rhein

In the Hessian Ried , an area between Stockstadt , Gernsheim and Crumstadt , petroleum was found in test drillings in the 1930s. The oil production did not start until 1952. A total of 47 wells were sunk for development and the oil was pumped upwards from depths of 1,530 and 1,720 m. In the port of Gernsheim, a separate ship loading point was set up for the removal of the oil. The oil delivered by ship and rail was further processed in the Deurag-Nerag refinery in Misburg near Hanover . Over 500 people worked in the oil field in 1954. In 1964 and 1965, 64,000 tons each were mined. Up until the end of oil production in 1994, almost 1 million tons of oil had been produced from the Hessian Ried. The last borehole, “Stockstadt 38”, is still an industrial monument in the Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue nature reserve .

On July 28, 2015, the company Rhein-Petroleum , based in Heidelberg, announced that in the previous multi-year exploration research with three test wells carried out in the new field near Goddelau, a renewed production of very good high-quality crude oil in terms of production rate and production time at a price of 100 Dollars per barrel will be worth it. For this purpose, a modern conveyor and filling system was built from October 2015. The crude oil comes under pressure up to 400 meters to the surface and is pumped to the surface to cover the remaining distance by means of a pump system. There, natural gas, hot water as well as crude oil and paraffin are separated from each other and brought to a refinery in Karlsruhe by truck. As Rhein-Petroleum announced, the main customer of the oil, which has already been contractually secured, will be BASF in Ludwigshafen. The exploration costs for the three wells totaled EUR 9 million. After the successful test drilling, a production license valid for 24 years from 2018 was granted for the “Schwarzbach I” drilling field. The oil is extracted from a depth of 1500 m to 1700 m.

Landau oil field

Horse head pump for oil production in Nussdorf (Landau)

In Landau in the Palatinate ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) there are 68 oil production sites in the Landau oil field . The oil is stored under the Nussdorf plaice at a depth of 500 to 1,800 meters. Wintershall has been using horse head pumps since 1955. The water content in the oil is approx. 90%. The annual output in 2011 was 21,050 tons. The oil is further processed in the MiRO refinery in Karlsruhe . 30 people are employed at the Landau branch of Wintershall Holding GmbH .

Alpine foothills

Oil production (including condensates from natural gas production)

Oil fields in the foothills of the Alps Found
year
Promotion in tons
2011 2016 total until 2016
Aitingen 1976 23,690 28,769 1,562,331
Hebertshausen 1982 1,874 1,727 150.891
Schwabmünchen 1968 6,758 6,498 52,995
Condensate from natural gas production 84 265 24,167
from abandoned deposits 8,428,064
Total area 32,406 37,258 10,218,447

In 2011 crude oil was still being produced from three different oil fields in the foothills of the Alps . The Aitingen field near Großaitingen , discovered in 1976, is operated by Wintershall as the largest oil field in Bavaria. In Hebertshausen near Dachau there is a small oil field of the same name, which is exploited by RWE Dea . A small development area has also been in operation near Schwabmünchen since 1968.

The eruptive oil well Darching, community of Valley near Holzkirchen (developed in 1969; production by Wintershall ), known from the constantly burning natural gas torch next to the A8 motorway , had to be abandoned in 2003, as before, several other fields in the region.

Upper Swabia

From 1958 to 1995, eighteen pumps produced an average of 200 tons of crude oil per day in the foothills of the Alps in Baden-Württemberg near Rot an der Rot in the Rot- and Ellbachtal.

history

Oil rigs in Bad Wiessee , 1911

The area around Pechelbronn in Alsace , now in France, was probably the first place in Europe where oil was extracted. The earth pitch spring , which is still active today , has been documented since 1498 and gave the place the name: " Pech well ". The petroleum from the Pechelbronn layers was initially used medicinally for skin diseases.

The natural St. Quirins oil well on the west bank of Lake Tegernsee , which has now dried up, has been proven since the 15th century . The oil was sold by the monks of the Tegernsee monastery for medicinal purposes. As Florian Mildenberger was able to show, Ariost's "Petroltraktat" from 1493 had an effect on the so-called Tegernsee petroleum slip from the "holy Quirin-oele" (named after Quirinus von Tegernsee ) into the 19th century. In 1904 the first test well was carried out by the Dutch company Dordtsche Petroleum Maatschappij, which encountered crude oil at a depth of 500 m. An “oil boom” followed in 1907 with the establishment of the “Ersten Bayerische Petroleum Gesellschaft mbH” by Adriaan Stoop and the implementation of a total of 11 wells in Bad Wiessee . As early as 1912, however, the production rate sank so much that oil production was stopped. The iodine and sulphurous thermal water found at a depth of about 670 meters helped Bad Wiessee to rise as a health resort.

After the Second World War, the search for hydrocarbon deposits began again in the Bavarian Alpine foothills , which started a phase of economic extraction from 1954. To date, around 60 oil and gas deposits have been discovered in southern Bavaria. Most of the deposits are on both sides of a line that extends eastward from Munich to the Austrian border. To the north and west of Munich, it has so far only been possible to discover isolated, but above-average deposits for Bavaria (for example near Bedernau in the Unterallgäu district ). From 1954 to 2000 a total of 6.9 million tons of crude oil and 18.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas were produced in Bavaria. In the 1990s, most oil and gas fields had to be stopped because they were unprofitable. The search for new deposits was also not carried out because of the then low oil prices .

literature

  • Heinz Boigk: Petroleum and petroleum gas in the Federal Republic of Germany . Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-432-91271-4 .
  • Rainer Karlsch, Raymond G. Stokes: Factor Oil. The mineral oil industry in Germany 1859–1974. Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2003. ISBN 3-406-50276-8 .
  • Derek Mösche: 150 years of oil production in Schleswig-Holstein. in: Bergbau Issue 1/2007, pp. 18–20 ( digital copy, pdf, 253 kB )
  • Michael Pasternak: Exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas in Germany 2008 , in: ERDÖL ERDGAS KOHLE 2009, pp. 272–286.
  • Wirtschaftsverband Erdöl- und Erdgasgewinnung eV: Natural gas and oil from Germany. Hanover 2008 ( digitized, pdf, 480 kB )

Web links

Commons : Oil production in Germany  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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