RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SOVIET-CONTROLLED OIL FIELD AREAS

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• Publication Date: March 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
I N F MATlO EP T CD NO.
FIDENTIAL
Austria,7L,S18/Satell.ite States DATE D1STR,
5UBJECT R -,cent Dev 7Lopm is in the Sovitt-Controlled
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
Oil Field Areas
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of TllE UNITED STATES. WITHIN TH8 MEANING OF TITLE IF, SECTIONS 1311
AND 754. OF THE O. S. CODE. AS AWENOED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR R#'#L
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1.. As of November 1952 the Matzen oil field area included a total of
72 eruptive wells. It hat now been determined that the Matzen oil
field fire of Novenher 1951 was the result of an outbreak of natural
gas which occurred in the c:ourse of drillings at well No0 69: The
sudden. force of the irscapiitg gas caused a layer of pebbles to strike
the drill, rig, proda,.ins s-,-.,arks which then ignil,ed the gas0 The
well head and drill rig were completely destroyed by the time the
fire was brought uui.ter cont.,ol0 No other d :.rnage was reported:
2 The Soviets exper5..nced a s3cond setback at Matzen when well No.. 40
which had trcien yi_(:l.din 64 eons of crude of 6 per 24-hour period at
a casing pressure of 58 atm,)spheres and tubing ^ressure of 35 atmos-
pheres, suddenly erupted. within two hours the casing pressure had
mounted 10 atmospheres' and ;.rl four more hours halt reached a point
well over 75 -'.mosphere ,, before this pressure could be reduced an
area of about one square kilometer around well Ne0 4 had been inun-
dated, Aparv from the loins of the well head and other equipment in
use at this well, the SovLets were forced to clotle off temporarily
three other wells,, No, 66, 67, and 58, which norr.cally yield a com-
bined dail average, of 180 tons of crude oily Ftiirthermore, the road
from Schoe%kircben to Prot:;tes was partly washed away, and the road
surface elsewhere damaged by underground displac3ments.
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3. This oil field area now has a total of 12 eruptive wells in production
Mueh;lb
The Muehlb g field has 65 rroducing wells, nine of which are pumping
wells, Nv hlber?g's output has decreased to approximately 900 metric
tons per (1 ,y ,,
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5~ The i,FA complex, comprising uE]A I and II, ITAG, and 'iaustrenk, numbers
2C5 numpinr' wells,.
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6. In r,ovember 1951 the F. '', Goesting fields contained 42 Dumping wells.
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7. The V::tn ~:ickle oil fields are reoor?ted to have :ai?out 4G numpini wcl.ls
in production.
Crude Oil jelivered Between October and December 1951
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8.. Folloo.in-- 's a sutrin+-.r,. of av-iil:aule estimai.es on the crude o_.1 out-,.it
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These fi
fields ..r
iV fields during the neriod
;r.r?es represent the amount o
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c f Oct-mhcr to
f' . uruoa oil nu
ll nrcduction.
Lecember 1951.
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rlumbbtr of Tons of crude Oil !.elivereu
Octo'er 1951
November 1951
Matzea
122,440
117,2CC
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II, IT.:G anu i,;austrenk
13,330
J-), 6(,c
12,9' O
;;ri.:rkla.a
a , 52C
2V12((
28,32(
:' iehlberg
2' , 59C
,1.,20 C
27,900
an Fickl
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,,510
1.5,0(0 (Van
5,88C (`Ian
:,64C-
fickle,
EPG & TEAG)
Cickle
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1: .71 C
Eastward ``hinments Of 1Jrucae Oil fr,'m ::atzen
Fo3lowiric.- 'is a breakdown of ~,..?uue oil' : ,ipmerlt s ?rorr. the :?:atien r ilroad
5?tation to Poland, vzecho slovaki8, Hun Fir T v 3F`i.FSr?n Berman ' and the Uf?cR
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I lall :;rude oil exnorts during'; ' ; o er raa s ,iomen s 25X1
6,4(C' tons. to Eastcrn Germany and 11,72' tons to OLechoslovakia
during; this month. It shoulu be noted hat the?e .fa un tes an not include
oil. pumped to the storage tanks in the lobau:
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!'umber of Tons of Crude Oil
November 1951 December I.9 1
Dziedziee anu Trzebinia, ` o1 end
1,2(7 4,315C
Yolin, ;zechoslovakia
- 7,.3C0
Inubova, Czechoslovakia
218 -
..Ioravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
185 -
Most and Zaluzi, (Czechoslovakia
495
Gyarteleo (Gyoertelck?), Hungary
462 -
Gross F:orbetha and Krw na (1), '-.astern Germany
It, 72C -
Mukachevo,. UESFi
772 3,105
10. In addition to these ;F_atzen shiomentc, an ?I V emnlo}gee states th,~t
15 transports, each ccntainin,: 450: tons ofarruue oil,c~ertidesnat`hea
each month frorY the P;eusiedl m rCh a11in y
these transnorts, which t,