POSSIBILITIES OF OIL EXPLOITATIONS IN EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006000090007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 5, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLI1GENCE AGENCY
INFORMATE S' REPORT
COUNTRY, - East Germany
SUBJECT Possibilities of Oil Exploitations in East
Germany
PLACE '
ACQUIRED.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 5 April 1955
NO. OF PAGES 1 25X1
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
DATE OF
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the trough near Waddekath in East Germany, which
discoveries
he whole prod
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
southwest of Salzwedel are closely connected with the "Gifhorner Trog", recently
north-west rim of the tr
area and presumably brans-Fes
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2. According to experts,.who met at a conference of the.Society for Mineralogyr and I
. theory that the area of the G h may a
Werle area, are connected wit the Gi
t
measurements and seismographic tests >de in Eas experts, however, are of the ion that the prod
3. Similar forecasts can probably not be made about the Mecklenburg area, as the
discovery of the subterranean structures of the troughaleading essentially from
south to northb is only of recent date and the results of the latest reflectance
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Organic Chemistry in Essen on 6 to 9 October 1954, more oil discoveries will probably
. 4.
not yet known. Western
aces found in the
. This leads to the
e .r+c vri71 realize the imports e
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There is a possibility, tha
Gifhorn may be found south
it appears that deep-well b
Jurassic period, which indicate the exis eeenceoo
in this area,
It seems doubtful., however., that
of these findings. The above ment
possible only by the use of essen
years of experience. But East Go:
does it have first-class experts with a
among the coming generation of young se
acquired the necessary experience. The
al prospecting. The-"Gifhorner Trog" is a_subterranean
town of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony., north north-east and
000 meters. It is the source region. of
close to the
In thi,,C-\/,zwee
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