CURRENT SMV DRILLING AND PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION WORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006600170003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 12, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Austria
SUBJECT Current SMV Drilling and Pipeline
Construction Work
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR. 12 May 1955
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been conducting near Rabensburg, Lower Austria, oil has been discovered which
yielded up to 22 percent gasoline in a siaSle-dist'illation process.1 2 More
extensive test drillings are planned to i*~ at-,better estimates tof the 25X1
productivity and size of the Eabensburg net;.`
2. As of 4 March, four of he planned 22 two drilling rigs were in operation
3. All of the pipe for the oil line which is to be laid from Bockfliess to Moosbierbaum
is produced in Czechoslovakia dnd will be transported to Austria by Czech
personnel ?4 SMV is already planning an extension of the Moosbierbaum-Bockfliess
pipe line. This extension would continue t e line from Bockfliess via Auersthal to
to Prottes-Schoenkirchen and would add an adlditional 16 kilometers. This part 25X1
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omment. .The exact location of the various drilling points in the Rabensburg\
area was reported Sinee then, most Vienna news- 25X1
papers have carried a story about the total loss through fire of drilling tower
number one on 23 February.
Comment. Thee normal, gasoline content of oil is about 10 percent.
in the Fischamend area. on 4 March, the Central Warehouse at Neusiedl received
12 sets of spare parts for turbo drilling units type T 12 M 1 - 8". During the 25X1
following week, an additional six 8" and ten 12" tutbe drilling units with the6r
spare parts were expected to arrive from the Soviet Union by rail.
and not for the Fischamend test drilling area.
Jomment. The 22 turbo-drill rigs are presumably for the entire SW
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