Economy Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

rail lines of galicia before 1897

near drohobych , boryslav in galicia, significant oil reserves discovered , developed during mid 19th , 20th centuries. first european attempt drill oil in bóbrka in western galicia in 1854. 1867, @ kleczany, in western galicia, drilled using steam 200 meters. on december 31, 1872, railway line linking borysław (now boryslav) nearby city of drohobycz (now drohobych) opened. american john simon bergheim , canadian william henry mcgarvey came galicia in 1882. in 1883, company, macgarvey , bergheim, bored holes of 700 1,000 meters , found large oil deposits. in 1885, renamed oil developing enterprise galician-karpathian petroleum company (german: galizisch-karpathische petroleum aktien-gesellschaft), headquartered in vienna, mcgarvey chief administrator , bergheim field engineer, , built huge refinery @ maryampole near gorlice, in southeast corner of galicia. considered biggest, efficient enterprise in austro-hungary, maryampole built in 6 months , employed 1000 men. subsequently, investors britain, belgium, , germany established companies develop oil , natural gas industries in galicia. influx of capital caused number of petroleum enterprises shrink 900 484 1884, , 285 companies manned 3,700 workers 1890. however, number of oil refineries increased thirty-one in 1880 fifty-four in 1904. 1904, there thirty boreholes in borysław of on 1,000 meters. production increased 50% between 1905 , 1906 , trebled between 1906 , 1909 because of unexpected discoveries of vast oil reserves of many gushers. 1909, production reached peak @ 2,076,000 tons or 4% of worldwide production. called polish baku , oil fields of borysław , nearby tustanowice accounted on 90% of national oil output of austria-hungary empire. 500 residents in 1860s, borysław had swollen 12,000 1898. in 1909, polmin headquarters in lviv established extraction , distribution of natural gas. @ turn of century, galicia ranked fourth in world oil producer. significant increase in oil production caused slump in oil prices. rapid decrease in oil production in galicia occurred before balkans conflicts.

galicia central powers major domestic source of oil during great war.

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