OIL DRILLING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009700190010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rumania
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DATE DISTR. 5 January 19511
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1A Reportedly, 90% or more of the engineers and workers in he oil fields and
core drill ina, projects are anti.-Conu}iunist. There is a Treat shorta. ;e of
efficient engineers and drillers as so many have been liquidated for having
expressed their anti-Communist feelings too freely or for "sabotage,"
that is to say, not living up to the percentage norms sit for work to be
accomplished. core recovery had to be 25X1X
90%, generally considered to be a physical impossibility, in sedimentary
formations. This was overcome by substituting old cores for "soft"
formations which slipped out of the core barrels.
2, In spite of these efforts to accomplish near perfect norms, 25X1X
25X1X coring for oil and soft coal (lini*e) had been quite successful
25X1X all over Rumania from the Hun?arian border to the Black Sean
a. New oil field discovered at Suta, 18 kilometers south of Targoviste~
b. Location of core holes revealing two new shallow oil fields not yet
developed;
cQ Location of core holes drilled for lignite which showed exploitable beds
of good lignite three to four meters thick in several widely scattered
areas. Shafts will be dug and t'!er;na1 power plants built at
specified locations to burn the lignite extracted. Factories and towns
will be built from scratch around the power plants, thus dispersing
industries over the countrysi?Ie and avoiding long hauls for the coal.
3. Regarding Rumania's oil production, the informant stated that it is well.
below published fi?ures or percents;es. There is a great scarcity of
good equipment (particularly American) and no way to -,et or make spare
parts. Equipment received from the USSR is consistently very inferior to
American equipment and is: not getting any better. Rurnanian equipment
manufactured by Resita, never very good, is worse than ever., A core rig is
reportedly worn out after drilling only two core holes. Continuous
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breakdowns slow down the work, so that of twenty-five core drills under the
informant's supervision, ten or fifteen only were actively drilling at any
one time, and the bi.-11nce undergoing repairs or that down for lack of
spare parts,
4A The situation in the oil industry became so bad last spring that Minister of
Mines and Petroleum, George Vassiliki, was summarily dismissed, Thereafter.,
the Russian-controlled Sovrompetrol gained control over all Rumanian oit
developments, The Muntenia and Moldavia Rumanian petroleum entities were
becoming more and more infiltrated with Soviet engineers in an effort to
step up production, Old wells, abandoned as non-commercial, were being
put back on production in a desperate effort to increase oil output.
54 Regarding the refineries (most of which are in Ploesti) reconstruction has
been completed. The one refinery situated on the western outskirts of
Bucharest has been dismantled and moved elsewhere,
6, Considerable effort and some success has been accomplished in developing
oil fields in the Buzau area-of Moldavia, heretofore only a minor area of
Rumanian oil production.
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