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J. Golonka and F. J. Picha, eds., 2006, The Carpathians and their foreland: Geology and hydrocarbon resources: AAPG Memoir #84, p. 811-834.

DOI:10.1306/985630M843071

Copyright copy2006. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

How the Modern Oil and Gas Industry was Born: Historical Remarksast

Joacutezef Sozantildeski,1, astast Stanislstrokeaw Kuk,2 Czeslstrokeaw Jaracz,3 Piotr S. Dziadzio4

1Podchoraogonzdotych Str., Krosno, Republic of Poland
2Polish Oil and Gas Company, Geological Bureau ldquoGeonafta,rdquo South Regional Division, Gorlice, Republic of Poland
3The Oil and Gas Institute Krosno Branch, Krosno, Republic of Poland
4Polish Oil and Gas Company, Geological Bureau ldquoGeonafta,rdquo South Regional Division, Gorlice, Republic of Poland
astPortions of this text are fragments of the publication Light from the Earth (Dziadzio and Letowski, 2003a). Permission to reprint from Wydawnictwo Tekst Sp. z o. o. Bydgoszcz, Poland.
astastDeceased.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to Wydawnictwo Tekst Sp. z o.o, Bydgoszcz, Poland, for permission on the reprint part of the publication Light from the Earth. We also thank the Museum of Oil and Gas Industry in Bobrka, the Regional Museum Polskiego Towarzystwa Turystyczno Krajoznawczego in Gorlice, Archives of Machines Faktory Glinik J.s.c. in Gorlice, and Slawomir Dziadzio and Marek Maczuga for permission to reprint some of the postcards and photos contained in the above-mentioned publication.

ABSTRACT

This chapter presents historical remarks and a quick review of knowledge of the occurrence and use of bituminous raw materials in the Carpathians. The most important data on the use of hydrocarbons in the Carpathians in the literature from the 16th century, and on the development of its use, exploration, and exploitation date from the beginning of 19th century. In the laboratories of Lvov and Gorlice, Ignacy Lukasiewicz, the founding father of the Polish oil industry, distilled his first amounts of kerosene and other oil-derivative products. Public lighting of kerosene lamps in a Lvov hospital occurred on July 31, 1853. This date was generally recognized as the beginning of the national oil industry. Also in 1854, the first street kerosene lamp was lit up in Gorlice.

These two events showed how important the research of this raw material is. Several natural oil seeps concentrated on the surface signalled the beginning of discoveries of many shallow oil deposits, starting from Stary Sacz, Gorlice, Krosno, Sanok, Sambor, Drohobych, Nadwornaya, Bogorodchany, Kossovo, and going all the way to the Romanian Carpathian Mountains.

In this chapter, dynamic development of the petroleum industry from the second half of the 19th century up to the beginning of World War II is also presented, concentrating on gradual activities of many oil companies in the Polish part of the Carpathians. At that time, new drilling and exploratory technologies and oil-distillation processes were developed, causing the growth of the oil industry in the Carpathians and in many countries worldwide.

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