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| Keywords: The greatest oil disaster in Europe.jpg en 28th May 1929 In Moreni area a big disaster occured On a Plateau of Moreni called Tuicani was 160RA well property of the Romanian-American Society When drillings were at about 1460 metres the gas force reached its maximum At this time the chisel reached the oil bearing bed and the force of gas blow the derrick in the air at about 400 metres Because of sparks the well burst into flames The flames grew and grew reaching 100 metres in high By using the pumps a great water dam was made The heat from the flames was so great that the teams couldn t get closer then 300 metres By chance there were no victim According to the specialist the damages was over 100 million lei In the next day the column of fire was 60-70 metres in high and a whole region it was lightened It was very well seen from Ploiesti 50 km away or even Chitila 85 km away Many birds around the area didn t migrate that year and trees remaing greens The well burn for two and a half years and in this time the lost amount of oil was huge and many tryings to put the fire down has ended with no effect and human life lost Never had a fire burned so long and so hard as Romania's Moreni No 160RA A ferocious blaze that flamed for over two years and lit the skies for as far as seventy miles the Moreni No 160RA had already claimed the lives of fourteen men by the time Romanian oil executives agreed to the innovative approach proposed by maverick firefighter Myron Kinley In 1931 when Myron went to Romania to put out a fire which had raged for two years his fame became international Every new fire was a new problem In Romania the caved-in well had made a crater 250 ft wide and 65 ft deep filled with small ground fires and a tangled web of melted pipeline It took Kinley six months to lick the fire American engineer Myron Kinley receive after the fire ended a 50 thausand dollars a fortune for that time In september 1931 the Great Fire ended by itself but still wenton slowly untill 4 th of november http //furcuta blogspot com Petroblog mausoft Marius Furcuta 2008-07-25 Oil industry in Romania Oil well fires | ||||
