OIL DRILLING OPERATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008600850003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMA-11ON REPORT ?
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material 90410 lnforh t1on affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.Q.O. 8ece, 793 ?and 794, the transmission or revelation of'whlch in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY,; Hungary
SUBJECT Oil Drilling Operations
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1,. Jr,:1952 drilling operations for oil were undertaken in the Sopron
region .each as near the villages Fortgazentmiklosa Sopronk8vesdn Harks,
a d Rb ha se These drillings were without success.
2? Tn'the'Spolnok area efforts have been made since 1952 to find oil but
,. a J r eY~l '' f `a L a tan~t ;t W-7., dvo bmen; . foganc
drillings began ioar the viliage of Ssanre
in 1954 work was undertaken near Budapest near the v llagerJ~t a~n
Osomed, Seadas Oe entmiklos and Vaohart na Only gee wee found and At,
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4. ` O'~noe o rly..1955'P'011 drilling operations . ar `gb ng on n tai "? i
MiekoloA Me~ok~~resd s Mo~Sosat a Oelo5 and MesBn r . The interlsity ~:
the oeaxoh f oil is strongest in the known oil a tope south of z..n
the Liops region and at Gollenhata and environs b Recently the pearoh ?
has boon extended in this region e1ong the vaitey of the river xorka .aiedlf
the none called Murakena
Tho search has not been abandoned in the Eastern province near the
Rumanian frontier round Berokb8ss3rmenr Nbr5assegapatiD Siharragrba`om
and Nadudvere Drilling operations are also in progress in the rcgltA-
M eagyarmata Devavanyaa and Sfaeghaloms The work in these areas is mach
loss concentrated than at Lispes
6. Dnill.ngo.are made in part with the old German and American equipment
produce'enough-for all of Hungary's needso
and in part with Soviet heavy and medium equipment of the TrauX1 make
(type UZTM and o BU-40)6 :At Kiokunfol.oglrhaa~a a factory ma inufactures
drilling equipm t patterned on foreign models.
Difficulties arise from time to time because of the shortage of pipe as
the Rakosi factory at Oeepel and the steel works at Salgotaarjen cannot
(Natei WashIngton diktrlbutlon Indieofed by "VI Pasld-di tilbulien by
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