KOLIN MINERAL OIL REFINERY IN KOLIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 20, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUB3ECT Koun Mineral Oil Refineryl.raolin
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
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SOURCE
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR. 30 April 1954
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REFERENCES:
. SITE LAYOUT (partial):
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Reference is made to Enclosure No. 1, this report, Memory Sketch of
the Mineral Oil Refinery in Kahn ZIT 50-02, E 15-317
identified:
Point 1. Road, cobblestone, six meters wide, good condition, led
Xrom Kolin to Chlumec nad Cidlinou LIT 50-09, E 15-217,
fair amount of automobile traffic.
Point 2. Fence, wooden boards, 2.20 m. high.
Point 3. Two Cooling Towers, wooden, 15 in. high, for cooling water.
Point 4. Shed, wooden, dimensions unknown to Source, shed-type roof.
Point 5. Building, wooden, 60 x 40 x 4 in., single story, contained
kitchen and dining hall for employees.
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Point 6. Workshop, brick, 40 x lo x 4.5 in., gable roof, roe material
unknown; steel pipes of various sizes were Made there plus
all kinds of necessary equipment for the plant. About
4o people were employed there-.
Point 77. Storages, wooden, 30 x 8 x 3.5 in,, low-pitched gable roof;
stored water pipes, electric cables, and other items un-
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Point 8. Workshop, wooden, open on north, south, and east sides,
wooden low-pitched gable roof, dimensions unknown
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weremade there by hand. No further information.
Point 9. Storage, wooden, 25 x 8 x 3.5 in,, low-pitched gable roof;
various pipes, mechanical drawing material, various screws,
and rivets were stored there.
Point 10. House, brick, two-story, red tile cable roof, in which the
manager of the refinery lived, not recall his
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Point 11. Building, brick, single story, 20 x 5 x 3.5 in,; northeast
sides were open, andemployees' motorcycles were parked
there. On the east side of the building was a time clock
room, guard room for four to five guards who wore black
uniforms and were armed with pistols. Three guards always
guarded the plant's entrance and premises. Telephone
switchboard was located in this building.
Point 12. Administration Building, two-story, brick, 4o x 15 x 7 in.,
low-pitched gable roof. First floor accommodated the first-
aid room, with one M.D., one dentist, and various offices.
Second floor contained offices, cadre department with a
political adviser in charge, and personnel department
Point 13. Building, brick, two-story, 30 x 15 x 9 m. low-pitched
gable roof; chemical laboratories for testing final products
were on the first floor; second floor contained the manager's
office, blueprint room with safes, and other offices.
Point 14. Gara es, brick, 15 x 4 x 3 in., wooden shed-type roof,
couid accommodate four passenger cars.
Point 15. Garages for trucks, brick, 20 x 5 x 4 m., wooden shed-
type rodf; also contained the mimeograph room.
Point 16. Water Reservoir, steel, 25 in. high, 12 m. in diameter.
Point 17. Coal Storage in the open, powder coal.
Pant 18. "Locomotor" Depot, consietted of Thur "Locomotors". These
"Locomotors" were used to pull freight cars and tank cars
around the refinery area. Due to the danger of fire, they
were not equipped with coal furnaces, but received their
steam for locomotion, under pressure, from boiler house,
Point 48. The boilers on the "Locomotors" were insulated,
but they had to replenish their steam at frequent inter-
vals due to rapid exhaustion of their steam supply.
Point 19. Building, wooden, two-story, 60 x 20 x 9 rn,, tar-paper
low-pitched gable roof; first floor had various smithies
and second floor housed unknown storages.
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20. Double Railroad, led from Prague to Kolin.
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21. Railroad Spur, branched off from RR, Point 20 in Kolin
railroadstation; spur led through the premises of the
refinery as shown on the sketch.
22. Steel Containere, about 16 in number, each 15 m. high;
3.5 in, in diameter, unable to tell what was
stored in them.
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Point 24.
Point 25.
Point 26.
Point 27.
Point 28.
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Building, brick, single story, 25 x 10 x 5 in., wooden
gable roof, gasoline and oil barrels were washed there.
Fence, mesh, 2.20 in. high, with barbed wire on top.
Circular Steel Containers, more than 20 and less than 40
in number; all were of different sizes, the largest could
have been about 20 in. high; not know the con-50X1
tents.
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Of...11_,OeB111adinita,. wooden, single story, dimensions unknown.
Old Refinery, reinforced concrete construction;
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Building where paraffin was manufactured; new piping was
toille installed in the near future which would serve double
purpoie of heating and cooling; this piping was to be
manufactured in workshops, Points 6 and 8.
Point 29. Underground Containers containing aviation fuel, IE-87 50X1
(teteoky Benzin Etbyl; 87 is octanewontent); about 10 or
12 in number, capacity of each wast60400 lit. Containers
were placed in two rows, divided by a passage way where
interconnecting piping was laid. All containers were inter-
Connected by means of pipes, andeach container was separate-
ly walled with brick.
all the containers were filled-with I8E-U7
aviation fuel. During World War II, one container was,
kept empty so that, in case of tire, the gasoline from:
the burning tank could be drained into the empty one. On
the surface the storage looked like a hill overgrown With
grass and bushes except for the tops of the containers
which were kept bare. Entrance to the storage was for-
bidden, usually kept lOcked and not especially guarded.
Refer to Enclosure No. 2, this report, Memory Sketch of
Underground Containers.
Point 30. Underground Containersf. similar type and construction as
containers, Poia 29, except that these were somewhat
smaller and less in number, not know what kind
of aviation fuel was stored there.
Refueling Station; no further information.
Propane Station; no further information.
Container with Propane, horizontal cylindrical containers,
about 15 in, long and 2 in, in diameter, steel; pipelines
from containers led to propane station, Point 32.
Point 34. Container with Propane,similar type and dimensions as
con a ner Point
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Point
Point
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Point 35. Air Raid Shelter, round, concrete bunker, could accommodate
50 people0 Painted white, about one meter underground,
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Point 36.
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Point 38.
Point 39.
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Point 42.
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Point 44,
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Point 48.
There were
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Old Boiler House, practically empty since most of-the
Wipment was transferred to the new boiler house, Point
Six Containers for Soapy Water, steel, sit by fen& by three
meters; pipelines from containers led from the new refinery,
Point 38. This "soapy water" was refuse (odpad) from the
oil processing in the new refinery. This refuse was later
heated, the water evaporated, leaving a heavy residue used
in making soap.
New Refinery, built in 1952, reinforced concrete, put
Into operation in September 1952, 60 x 40 x20 m.; no
further information.
Concrete Basins for waste, 15 m. long, 7 m. wide, 3 m.
deep; pipelines from the new refinery, Point
38.
Building, brick, dimensions unknown. several 50)0
boilers there. All sorts of lubricants (vaseliny) were
produced there and put into tin cans.
Building, under construction; single story, 30 x 10 x3.5
m.; gable roof, purpose unknown.
Building, no further' information.
Building, no further information.
Pipestills no further information.
Open Space where asphalt was poured into 200-lit. barrels.
Railroad tank cars stopped at this point and asphalt was
transferred to barrels.
Refueling Station, no further information.
Testing Laboratory, single story, brick, dimensions unknown:
final products were tested there for quality, consumption
and efficiency. No further information.
ailiztailer_112ggeL reinforced concrete, two boilers; also
WolitTalffeTerfffirTViger plant of the refinery which consisted
of two generators. No further information.
many other buildings on the refinery's premises which
unable to describe.
II. GENERAL INFORMATION:
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most of the crude mineral oil necessary for processing had been
imported from Austria and Rumania, and it was delivered in rail-
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2. Plant operated continuously in three shifts and employed about
1,500 people. Morale among workers was fair, the
workers in the refinery were anti-Communist (a..6 was most or the
population), but that they were relatively satisfied with their
work and pay As employees
of an important plant in tne chemical industry, they received
somewhat higher wages on the average than did most workers. Also,
the management of the plant was very clever about juggling the
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books to show output above the plan, which meant that the direc-
'tors (and to a lesser extent the workers) received fairly sub-'
'stantial bonuses for over-fulfillment of the plan. When produc-
tion was 105% of the plan, the management would hold back some
of the output and report output of only 101 or 104 of the plan.
Thus, even in those months when output was actually below 100%
of the plan, there was generally a reserve available to bring the
output figure up over lop% which automatically made the director
and employees entitled to the bonus.
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The main complaint of the workers was that ocasionally they were
required to work an unpaid extra shift, as a free offering to
Korean war relief, or as a contribution in honor of a Communist
Party meeting (zavazek na pocest sjezdu - KSC). The workers also
grumbled occasionally that they no longer received the free allo-
cations of kerosene and other refinery products which had apparently
been given them until 1948 or thereabouts0 not think
of any policies of the regime which the workers approvea of. The
same went for the youth and members of the armed forces.
50:00 labor controls at the refinery were those in use
throughout the country. Workers who fell down on the job or were
absent from work for no good reason were reprimanded several times,
hauled up before trade union meetings for public scoldings, and
perhaps finally arrested by the police for sabotage of the economy.
Arrests were made only in the last resort and to frighten others.
Usually, workers who were guilty of repeated absenteeism were
eventually fired and so forced to report to the labor office for
assignment to work in the mines. As a rule, older married workers
could not afford to stay away from work or be fired, and so re-
ported for work fairly regularly. The ones guilty of absenteeism
were the youths who still lived at home and who didn't care what
khappened to them. In the final analysis the action taken to
enforce labor discipline depended really on the personalities
of the director of the plant and the leading Party members. A
disagreeable director could punish a worker quite severely for
only a minor infringement of work discipline; a decent director
might ignore small offenses and treat even serious ones very
leniently. In short, the action taken was up to the local leader-
shi and was not something automatically prescribed from above.
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national committees, the factory management, the Party,
the police, and the trade union organization as regards choice of
employment, assignment to work brigades, and so oriQ
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5. Plant's official nsme wls KORAMO (Kolinska Rafinerie Mineralnich
Oleju 1Colin Mineral oil Ifthery).
6. Final products' were aviation fuekLBE-87; white, blue, yellow, and
brown lubricants (vaseliny); paraffin summer and winter oil for
all' kindsof vehicles; "soapy water" Which was sold to various
industrial enterprises; asphalt; hydraulic fluid for servo-control
for the 8-102 and 8-103 jet aircraft under the designation of
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Enclosures:
1. Memory Sketch of Mineral Oil Refinery in Kolin
2. Underground Fuel Containers at Mineral' Oil Refinery in Kolin
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Enclosure # 1. Mineral Oil Refinery in Kolin
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Enclosure # 2, Underground Fuel Containers at Mineral Oil Refinery
in Kolin
Interconnecting Passage way Containers Brick wall
Pipes
around container
Side view
rick wall
Container
Top view
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Passage way
terconnecting
Pipes ,
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