Lingen (oil field)
The Lingen oil field is an approximately 10 km² former oil production area in Lower Saxony near the town of Dalum . The oil field is often also called Dalum or Lingen-Dalum . Oil production began here in 1942 and ended in 1997 with the watering of the production area. A total of over 2.4 million tons of crude oil was extracted from the field and processed in the nearby Emsland crude oil refinery . The Lingen 2 well in the oil field was the first well that encountered oil in the Emsland and triggered the later oil boom in the Emsland.
The oil field
The exploration of the Lingen oil field began in 1937 with the determination of a short-term area using reflection seismics . After the area had been narrowed down, the drilling of a borehole Lingen 1 began in 1940 , but this slightly missed the deposit and hit the watered edge zone at 1456 m.
It was not until the Lingen 2 borehole, west of the Ems, that there was evidence of an oil deposit in 1942. On March 23, 1942, the first ton of oil could be produced from the completed well, and regular production began in September of the same year. In the early days, the oil was carried underground to collecting tanks and regularly picked up by tankers. The oil, cleaned if necessary, was transported to Lingen station and loaded onto tank wagons that took it to the Misburg refinery .
From 1943, the oil could be pumped through a pipeline to the train station in Osterbrock, where it was stored in a tank and from here it could be loaded into tank cars. After the end of the war, tank cars with crude oil were soon sent back to the Ruhr area for further processing. From autumn 1947 onwards, ships could be loaded at the former lock system, from here more than a thousand ships with crude oil left the oil port for Misburg.
After the Emsland oil refinery went into operation just a few kilometers away in 1953, all of the crude oil could now be processed on site by pipeline.
The field reached its production peak in 1952 . In 1997 it was decided to close the field due to the low oil price and the low production volume. At that time, other production areas in the region, such as the Schoonebeek field, fared similarly.
After the closure, the boreholes were filled and the buildings and lines dismantled. Today there is nothing left except a memorial.
advancement
| year | Promotion in tons |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 16,255 |
| 1950 | 74,461 |
| 1953 | 138,000 |
| 1955 | 121,100 |
| 1960 | 87,119 |
| 1965 | 46,747 |
| 1970 | 33,055 |
| 1974 | 27,000 |
| 1975 | 23,834 |
| 1984 | 17,400 |
The total funding amounted to:
- 2.4 million tons of crude oil
- 598 million m³ of gas
- 1.7 million m³ of reservoir water
A total of 340 holes were drilled, 40 of them in the area of the municipality of Geeste , with a total of 370,000 meters.
literature
- Heinz Boigk: Petroleum and petroleum gas in the Federal Republic of Germany . Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-432-91271-4 .
- Gotthard Fürer: Mining in Emsland and the Meppen Mining Authority. In: Jahrbuch 1970. Emsländischen Heimatbund, Lingent 1970, pp. 128–144.
- Emsland Heimatbund: Emsland in the making, from handicraft to nuclear power . Sögel 1986, ISBN 3-88077-108-X .
See also
Web links
- Spiegel article about the development of the oil reserves in 1949
- Picture of a production probe 1996 ( Memento from October 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Photo of the memorial for "Bore Lingen 2" ( Memento from October 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Geocaching related to the oil field
- The Dalum oil field 1942–1967
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 27.6 ″ N , 7 ° 15 ′ 24.3 ″ E