The Petroleum Trail

The Petroleum Trail is an international tourist trail which runs from Poland to Ukraine linking places associated with the petroleum industry.

Sanok County

• Zarszyn – glycol and methanol storage for natural gas mining
• Strachocina – underground gas storage, structure of the old mine
• Sanok – exposition of the 19th-century oil industry related structures in Skansen – Open Air Museum
• Tyrawa Solna – preserved structure of a mine and pumping jack
• Wielopole – buildings of the office, boiler – room, waiting room for miners

History

• 1866 – Set up of oil production centres: Witryłów-Hłomcza, Polana, Łodyna-Brzegi, Zagórz, Rajskie, Stara Wieś, Głębokie, Turze Pole, Wielopole, Mokre, Tokarnia, Grabownica.
• 1928 – Discovery of Strachocina natural gas reservoir.
• 1924 – 1939 – Galician Petroleum Society "Galicja" drills on area of Jurowce, Strachocina.
• 1930s – oil and natural gas are produced among others in: Grabownica, Strachocina, Turze Pole, Stara Wies, Humniska, Wańkowa, Ropienka, Polana, Wielopole.
• September 1939 – "Beskiden Erdöl Gewinnungs – Geselschaft", renamed for "Karpaten Oil" infill drills of reservoirs: Wielopole, Mokre, Grabownica.
• October 9, 1944 – Creation of the State Petroleum Office, which form letter Nr15 establish "... the highest organising unit of mining district – Sector Sanok ..."
• 1946 – Beginning of rotary method in drilling.
• 1953 – Creation of drilling company – Sanok.

Old postcards

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  View at the Oil Field, Galician Petroleum Society "Galicja",1900s

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  View at the Oil Field, Mokre, 1914 Poland

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  View at the Oil Field, – Oil wells, pl. szyby naftowe, 1881

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  View at the Oil Field, Oil wells 1909

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  View at the Oil Field, Oil wells 1911

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  View at the Oil Field "Grabownica", 1930s

See also

• Ignacy Łukasiewicz

External links

• The Petroleum Trail (also, and)
• Królewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok, official website
• Bobrka, Krosno district, Poland