Tourist trail oil – international tourist trail leads through areas of Podkarpackie oil and gas industry in Poland and Ukraine (Galicia). It leads, inter alia, through such towns as: Bóbrka, Jedlicze, Zarszyn, Strachocina, Sanok, Tyrawa Solna, Wielopole (in Poland) and Niżankowice, Khyriv, Staryy Sambir, Sambir, Drohobych, Boryslav, Truskawiec in Schidnycia (in Ukraine).

To the unique global engineering facilities located on the trail include:

• glycol and methanol storage for natural gas operation in Zarszynie;
• underground gas storage and management elements of the old mine in Strachocina;
• museum exhibition of objects of the former oil industry from the period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Sanok;
• preserved mine infrastructure and oil wells in the Salt Tyrawie;
• Industrial buildings, boiler room and waiting room for the workers in the oil industry in Wielopolu;
• Broken equipment for operation of natural gas and crude oil in Schidnyci and Boryslaw.

Crossing border Polish-Ukrainian

At the time of Polish travel to Ukraine, visiting and following the "tourist trail of oil" (galicyjskim) - We recommend you cross the State Border in Krościenko, in Podkarpackie, Bieszczady County, Ustrzyki Dolne commune:

Road border crossing: Krościenko - Smolnica, open in 2002 year for the international movement of cars, minibuses, trucks and buses with a total mass for 7,5 tons. The border crossing is open day and night.

Railway border crossing : Krościenko-Khyriv, open in 1994 year for international passenger traffic. The border control of passengers and the train is done within international trains . Within day are passed 2 trains of international relations: Jasło-Khyriv-Jasło. The border crossing is open day and night.

Geological conditions

At the foothills of the External Western Carpathians and Eastern, by fitting the block to the north in the Carpathian, was Foredeep. Its emergence is associated with the last stages of the Carpathians tektogenezy. Carpathian depression is filled with Miocene sediments malasowymi. The Miocene sediments miąższych, in alternating layers of the Commonwealth of Independent sedimentary materials, which for centuries were deposited in this area were formed from the transformed plant and animal debris deposits of oil and natural gas. Later, these layers are covered with various materials of glacial origin.

Historical evidence trail formation:

After the revolutionary invention of the kerosene lamp in 1853 year by the Polish chemist and entrepreneur of Armenian origin Ignatius Lukaszewicz (Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz, 1822 – 1882), began to appreciate the benefits, offered by the petroleum. It was the kind of impulse, which gave rise to the oil industry in the area of ​​Galicia then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The first mine was established in this area 1854 at the initiative of Ignacy Lukasiewicz in Bóbrka near Krosno. To activate the underdeveloped mountainous areas, commissioned by the rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was commissioned the construction of Railways transversal Galician.

In Ukraine:

On the Ukrainian side in Podkarpackie East in the second half of the nineteenth century, launched an intensive exploitation of oil deposits in the vicinity of Borysław, Drohobych, Schidnyci, Sambora and Dobromil. At that time, the Habsburg Empire cared about the development of oil industry, created the technical infrastructure, brought turn.

Boryslav attracted many investors from Europe, because it had a very productive deposits. At the beginning of the twentieth century, with deep wells 900-1000 m mined per day 3 k. tonnes of crude oil. In addition to the area of ​​oil was extracted from natural gas and ozokerite (natural wax), which is a very valuable resource in balneology.

According to statistics the extraction of raw materials, given in October 1992 year, counting from the 1886 year, of oil and gas refining Borysławski extracted Region: 42,8 million tonnes of oil, 261,1 k. tons of condensate and 18,325 billion m³ gas. For years 90. Twentieth century virtually stopped searching for new oil deposits in the eastern sub-Carpathian region. On the day of Borysławski and oil and gas refining Schidnyckiego Region extracted respectively 72,6% and 99,5% oil stocks.

In Poland:

On the Polish side, The situation was analogous, because there was no boundary separating these two areas, which were homogeneous system. Conducted an intensive operation, with the participation of foreign capital. Arose during this time many oil fields and distillation plants. Refinery in Gorlitz, Founded in 1884 year, is one of the oldest refineries in the world.

So dear readers - BON VOYAGE !!!

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Bóbrka, Boryslav, Khyriv, Drohobych, Galicia, natural gas, The Empire Of Austria-hungary, Jedlicze, Nyzhankovychi, travel, Poland, Sambor, Sanok, Skhidnycia, Staryy Sambir, Strachocina, trail, route, tourist route, Truskavets, tourism, Tyrawa Solna, Ukraine, Wielopole, Zarszyn