REFINERIES AND PUMPING STATION PALAS NEAR CONSTANTA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rumania
ORMATION REPORT CD NO.
SUBJECT Refineries and Pumpi Cs b
Pala" Near Constants '~fo
DATE DISTR. 13 September 1950
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1. Engineer Ion Constantinesc~
working with pipeline: for 25 years is the manager of the plant and is assisted
by chemical engineer Constantin.: R.adulee+u, and chemical engineer Vasile
Varbulescu.'. In addition to these men, about 4u officials, largely administrative
and technical personnel, and about 100 workers are employed by the station,
2. The plant is adjacent to the Palas railroad station, the last station before
Constanta, at a distance of about 3 miles from Constants, on the Bucharest-
Constants railroad line. At this large railroad station the railroad line
is divided into a northern branch leading to the main railroad station at
Constants and a southern branch leading to the port of Constanta. Immediately
east of the railroad station, there are several'tanks which previously be-
longed to the Concordia, Steaua Romana, Columbia, Olex, Franco-Rowana and
Credttul Minter companies and, although nationalized, are still designated by
the old company names. The main entrance of the pumping station-is on the
north side, ;'leading in from the Cernavoda--Constants national highway, alongside
which runs the Ploesti-Constants pipeline.- To the most., the south, and the
east, the station area is fenced-off by planking 11 and one-half feet high.
The pumping station including buildings and accessory installations covers
an area abaat 3;300 feet by 2,600 feet.
3.
Boilerhouse No. 1, located in the southwestern corner of the areas 330
feet east of the warehouse of the Pala,, railroad station, immediately east
of the railroad station signal box. It is A concrete struct re of about
52 feet by 49 feet by 23 feet, erected between 1947 and 1944. It is
equipped with Cornwall boilers supplied by the Soviet Union in the
spring of 1947 which generated ll-atmosphere steam. Heating oil stored
in 4 small 300 cubic meter tank itr aediately east of the boilorhouse
is used as fuel.
b. BoUerhouse No. 2 and workshop: T building is located about 260
felt eat of boilerhouse No.l. is a concrete structure erected
between ly947 and 1948s of abou Q feet by 50 feet by -25 Bret, The
-western .half of the buildings used as a botlerhouse which " to equipped
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in the spring of 1947. ting oil stored in a small 300 cubiv meter
tank iediately west of he boilerhouse serves as fuel. The eastern 50X1-HUM
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part of the building contains a mechanical and electrical repair shop
The steam generated in the boilerhouses Numbers 1 and 2 is required
for operating the refinery and for heating the pipeline.
c. Pumphouse No. 1 is located 65 feet north of boilerhouse Number 1, and
is an old brick structure of about 47 feet by 23 feet by 20 feet
equipped with three steam-operated 5-atmosphere piston pumps of the
iiJorthington type,
d. Puriphouse No. 2 is situated 65 feet east of pumphouse Number 1. It is an
old, one story brick building, Ito feet by 23 feet by 20 feet, equipped
with two obsolete 30-atmosphere centrifugal pumps of the Gould Triplex
type, with electric motors attached.
e, Pumphouse No? 3 is situated 65 feet east of pumphouse Number 2. It
is a one-story concrete structure, about 60 feet by 25 feet by 23 feet,
which was constructed during 1947-1948 and is equipped with four 5O-
atmosphere steam-operated piston pumps of the Worthington type supplied
by the Soviet Union in 1947. The total rate of production of these
three puinphouses is 12,000 cubic meters per 24 hours.
f. The administrative building is located northeast of pumphouse Number 3,
about 500 feet south of the Cernavoda-Constants national highway. It
is an old two-story brick building about 130 feet by 40 feet by 52 feet,
The refinery management, the pay office and the bookkeeper's office
are on the first floors the pipe-line management on the second and the
technical office of the refinery and the pipeline on the third.
g. A building of the refinery is located about 330 feet south of the
Cernavoda-Constanta national highway and 115 to 130 feet east of the
administrative building. It is a one-story concrete building erected in
1947 and 19461 about 26 feet by 50 feet by 25 feet in size.
h. Another building of the refinery is located from 50 to 65 feet south
of the building described in paragraphs f and g. It is a concrete
structure of 26 feet by 140 feet by 25 feet erected in 1947.
west half of the area is totally
coveredzbytheefirstgroup,hwhichth-
consists of twenty-six 5,000 cubic meter capacity tanks. They are
arranged in four rows (running in north-south direction) of 6 tanks
each. Another two tanks are situated north of the administrative
building. The space between the individual rows is about 110 feet,
the tanks of a row being about 80 feet apart. All these tanks are
obsolete and were built before World War II.
Another group of ten 1,200 cubic meter tanks is situated about 80 feet
south of the building described in paragraph h and extends as far as
the railroad line leading to the Constants railroad station. These
tanks too are installed at 80 feet intervals and are obsolete,
k. Another group of four recen ly-installed 1,200 cubic meter tanks
arranged at 165 feet inte als is located in the triangle formed by
the two railroad lines 1 ding from Palas to the Constants railroad
terminal and to the Co tanta port area.
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la Four 160 feet loading platforms are located at the pumping station.
Thirty railroad tank cars can simultaneously be loaded or unloaded at
each platform. Three railroad spur tracks are also located here.
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