Galician oil reserves?

[Shtudmuffin]

I've always heard that there were oil reserves in the Galician region. However, I've never been able to find any information on them-when they started being exploited, how big they were, when (or if) they peaked, ETC. Does anyone know about Galician oil and/or have sources on the topic?

[erich von changstein]

which Galicia the 1 in spain or in east europe

[Simon]

Which Galicia do you mean? There's the Galicia in north-western Spain or the Galicia region in eastern Europe between Poland and Ukraine, I'm assuming the former but just wanted to double check.

Edit: Erich von Changstein gets in before me.

[stateless_englishman]

It's got to be the one in eastern Europe, given there was oil there. Closest Spanish Galicia came was an oil spill. In 1909 it produced 2 million barrels, 5% of world production.

EDIT: And 1909 was the peak. There was a book written about the Galician oil fields.

[Detlef]

stateless_englishman is right.
A review of the book he mentioned:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13873

And:
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/dro.../petroleum.asp

[Shtudmuffin]

I meant Galicia in Eastern Europe. I highly doubt Galicia, or any part of Spain, would be able to produce oil.

[BlondieBC]

At the peak, they were about 10% of the world oil production, which was much, much lower than now.

[Paul MacQ]

Around 1908 Galatia in Eastern Europe was helping make Austro-Hungarian Empire the Third largest Oil Producer By 1914 these fields had passed there peek and the oil was mostly drained out by the Mid 1920's.