Landau (oil field)

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Horsehead pumps of the oil field

The Landau oil field is an oil deposit near the city of Landau . With a total production of over 4.5 million tons to date, it is the largest oil field in the Upper Rhine Valley production region . Wintershall Dea is the operator of the oil field . Until the merger in 2019, the field was operated by Wintershall .

history

After pre-seismic reflection exploration in 1955, the oil field struck gold in the Landau 2 well . The oil field consists of several oil-bearing clods in which there are crude oils with very similar properties. The most striking part is the Nussdorfer Horst , which was raised up to 500 meters from the neighboring clods . Further field components are the Knöringer plaice, Walsheimer plaice, Nussdorfer Südostscholle, Dammheimer Nordscholle, Dammheimer Südscholle, Bauhorstscholle and Queichheimer Scholle.

The alternation of the oil-bearing layers reaches a total thickness of up to 700 meters.

In the vicinity of the Landau oil field are the abandoned oil fields Offenbach (1958–1963), Hayna (1957–1963) and Minfeld (1956–1964).

advancement

The oil field reached its maximum production in 1971 with 175,268 tons of annual production. This amount corresponded to 2.36% of the oil production in western Germany in the same year.

year Promotion
in tons
1955 2733
1960 122,836
1965 159,332
1970 171.020
1975 128.276
year Promotion
in tons
1980 78,604
1985 58,308
1990 52,864
1995 44,074
2000 36,883
year Promotion
in tons
2001 33,637
2002 31,905
2003 30,312
2004 28,020
2005 26,376
year Promotion
in tons
2006 24,360
2007 24,166
2008 21,999
2009 22,520
2010 21,142
year Promotion
in tons
2011 21,050
2012 22,012
2013 20,040
2014 19,419
2015 18.303
year Promotion
in tons
2016 16,536
2017 13,915
2018 13,379

Swell:

Properties of Landau petroleum

A pour point of 16–33 ° Celsius is given for the oil produced . With a paraffin content of 8–18.5%, it is also one of the petroleum oils with a high paraffin content.

See also

literature

  • Heinz Boigk: Petroleum and petroleum gas in the Federal Republic of Germany . Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-432-91271-4 .

Web links

Commons : Landau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 9. Oil production in Nussdorf. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Boigk: petroleum and petroleum gas in the Federal Republic of Germany . 1st edition. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-432-91271-4 , pp. 211-214 .
  3. ^ Petroleum and petroleum gas in the Federal Republic of Germany pp. 316–323 (until 1975)
  4. ↑ Annual report "Petroleum and Natural Gas in the Federal Republic of Germany" (from 1980). State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG), accessed on May 27, 2020 .


Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 41.6 ″  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 22 ″  E