Moreni probe
The Moreni probe is an oil well near the town of Moreni in the Dâmbovița district in Great Wallachia in Romania , but in a broader sense also the fire that lasted from 1929 to 1931 as a result of an explosive disaster.
Details
On May 27, 1929 (according to other information on May 10 or 28) a derrick caught fire after having advanced to a depth of more than 1,500 meters and losing control of the test well, with fourteen fatalities and more than 100 people were injured. An estimated 7,000,000 cubic meters of gas escaped every day. The presumably melted auger drive was never found, although parts of the derrick were pulled out of the flames. By spring 1931, the fire had burned out a 75-meter-wide and 20-meter-deep crater. Small torches burned from numerous crevices in the crater walls, fed by gas penetrating the heat-cracked earth. The resources of the Romanian government and the oil company Societatea Româno-Americană ( German Romanian-American Society ), which held the drilling license, proved to be insufficient. The prolonged fire became political fuel and even played a role in elections. After two and a half years, the flame went out by itself after a crater broke in. A contemporary source attributed the successful fighting of the fire to the American specialist Myron M. Kinley from Oklahoma , who needed from August 3, 1931 to February 7, 1932 would have. Accordingly, he put out the fire by filling the crater with a hardening cement mixture that was cooled with water. The fire resulted in total losses of $ 750,000.
reception
The depiction of this catastrophe on photos and postcards as a burning “ Moreni probe ” achieved widespread use. The event was also processed artistically and literarily. B. by Dieter Mendelsohn in The Eternal Flame by Moreni .
background
Moreni, which was still a village until the end of the 19th century , developed into a center of the oil industry at the beginning of the 20th century. Only after 1965 did the oil industry's share of 53% at that time change to a profile with 53% automobile construction and 26% fuel industry in 1972. In 1990 the oil share was only 15%.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c fuel chemistry: Journal for chemistry and chemical technology of fuels and their by-products . Volumes 12-13, 1931, pp. 364 and 565 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ A b c William Voigt, jr .: Myron M. Kinley Accomplishes Impossible in Rumania . In: Associated Press . April 3, 1932 (English). Quoted from Marius Furcuta: Petroblog - Romanian Petroleum History. In: furcuta.blogspot.com. October 4, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Incendie D'un Puits De Pétrole A Moreni En Roumanie (photo). In: gettyimages.ae. November 10, 1929, accessed January 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Editura I. Dragu, Ploiesti: Postcards / Postcard Moreni Romania, Sonda in Eruptie incediata in flacari, oil well, flames. In: akpool.de. 1929, Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Heidrun König: craftsmen and clergy as ancestors . In: Hermannstädter Zeitung . No. 2431 , May 22, 2015 ( online [accessed January 11, 2020]).
- ↑ Dieter Mendelsohn: The Eternal Flame of Moreni . In: The New Adventure . No. 121 , 1957.