The Beginnings of Oil Industry in Romania

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Did you

know?The year 1857 was marked by a series of events which placed

Romania as a strategic point on the energetic world map

The first country in the world with a petroleum production

officially registered in the international statistics

The Science of !etroleum" certifies in 1938 the fact that

Romania was the first country in the world with an oil production

of 275 tones officially registered in the international statistics !t

was followed "y the #nited States in 1859$ !taly in 18%&$ 'anada in

18%2 and Russia in 18%3

The world#s first refinery

!n our country the first processing e(uipments of petroleum are

considered the )oil pumps* from +ucacesti,-acau$ "elonging to .

'hoss in 18/& and 0 eimsohn in 18// This were only simple

handmade worshops$ e(uipped with rudimentary methods which

were using for refining a system similar to the one for o"taining)tuica* in a rustic "oiler

istillation on industrial way starts with the refinery "uilt "y

0ehedinteanu "rothers at the periphery of 4loiesti city$ near the

South Station$ on 17/$ -una estire Street

The refinery installations were (uite primiti6e$ all the e(uipment

"eing "uild up from iron or raw iron cylindrical 6essels$ warmed up


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directly with wood fire This e(uipment was ordered in ermany

from 0oltrecht 'ompany which was "uilding "oilers for "ituminous

shale distillation$ and in ecem"er 185% starts the construction of

the gas factory from 4loiesti$ on the name of 0arin 0ehedinteanu

$ucharest% the world#s first city public illuminated with

kerosene

The oil offered "y 0ehedinteanu "rothers for pu"lic illumination

had incontesta"le properties colorless and with no smell$ "urning

with a light flame$ with a constant intensity and shape$ without

smoe and without ash or resinous compounds in the wic This

important properties of the product as well as the offer of 335 lei

per year for each street lamp had practically ecluded all the

competition$ the other offers which proposed as a fuel the rape ornut oil were taing the costs up to %&& lei per year

Teodor 0ehedinteanu:s offer was appro6ed on the 8,th ;cto"er

185% and so -ucharest would ha6e "een illuminated with 1&&&

street lamps


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Romania was the first country in the worldwhich eported gasoline

from 1())

Romanian &cientist% *a+ar ,deleanu% had managed for the first

time in the world to refine petroleum with sulphur dio-ide to

selectively e-tract aromatic hydrocarbons .ben+ene% toluene%-ylene% etc/0/% without their chemical alteration/19&8 was the year

of his most significant in6ention$ the ,deleanu process/The procedure

was first applied eperimentally in Romania at the ega Refinery,

4loiesti$ then at Rouen$ @rance$ in ermany$ and su"se(uently

throughout the world

n 1()7% in !loiesti was set up 2oncodia plant for repairing and

producing the oil e3uipment

n the first world war in Romania were destroyed 1477 oil well%

from which 1)7 productive% oil refinery% oil derrick and refinery

with all their anne-es e3uipment and a 3uantity of oil derivates of

867/))) tones

&tarting with 1(6( and since 1(8% all the oil based productsobtained in the greatest Romanian refineries 2oncordia .ega0%

&teaua Romana% 9nirea .:rion and &peranta0% 2olumbia% 2reditul

;inier .$ra+i% Doicesti0% !rahova .!etrolul $ucuresti0% Tacit alve" , which

adapted to the "lowing out oil wells$ could close them hydraulic from

any distance$ e6en if the erupti6e oil well was on fire !t applies to the

free eruptions with a maimum pressure of 1&& atm The 6al6e was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzenehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluenehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylenehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edeleanu_processhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzenehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluenehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylenehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edeleanu_processhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouen


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