In this picture from the collection of the Uray City Historical Museum, the photographer captured Yuri Georgievich Ervie and Andrey Alekseevich Trofimuk at the R-6 well. Yuri Ervie was the founder and first head of the Main Tyumen Production Geological Administration, the largest in the system of the Ministry of Geology of the USSR.
He was the initiator and organizer of large-scale prospecting and exploration work, which ended in the discovery of the largest oil and gas field in West Siberian province in the USSR. He was a Hero of Socialist Labor.
Andrey Trofimuk was the Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, and laureate of two Stalin Prizes, 1st class. He played an outstanding role in the development of the “Second Baku”, founded the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Novosibirsk, where he was the director.
Exploration of the region was carried out in the late 1950s. A powerful oil gusher, which was obtained from the R-6 well, marked the discovery of the Trekhozernoye (Shaim) field. The well was drilled to a depth of 1,523 meters in just 18 days. Almost immediately, Academician Andrey Trofimuk and the head of the Tyumen Geological Administration Yuri Ervie, as well as regional leaders, went to test it.
Having visited the well, Andrey Alekseevich Trofimuk said that the importance of the Shaim oilfield can hardly be overestimated: first of all, it is the big oil of Siberia, which will allow even more extensive exploration for oil and gas in the West Siberian Plain. He also pointed out that Shaim oil was of high quality and had low sulfur content. In this way Trofimuk hinted at its advantages over oil from the Ural-Volga regions. The peculiarities of local oil facilitated its processing into the most valuable light products.
Andrey Trofimuk was sure that the Konda River area would become a major oilfield in the country in the very near future. Yuri Georgievich Ervie, in turn, said: “This is the first big oil in Siberia, which has an industrial value. For a number of years, our explorers managed to discover oil deposits in various regions of the Asian part of the USSR. But only Tyumen geologists and drillers have produced oil that has undeniable industrial potential.”
He was the initiator and organizer of large-scale prospecting and exploration work, which ended in the discovery of the largest oil and gas field in West Siberian province in the USSR. He was a Hero of Socialist Labor.
Andrey Trofimuk was the Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, and laureate of two Stalin Prizes, 1st class. He played an outstanding role in the development of the “Second Baku”, founded the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Novosibirsk, where he was the director.
Exploration of the region was carried out in the late 1950s. A powerful oil gusher, which was obtained from the R-6 well, marked the discovery of the Trekhozernoye (Shaim) field. The well was drilled to a depth of 1,523 meters in just 18 days. Almost immediately, Academician Andrey Trofimuk and the head of the Tyumen Geological Administration Yuri Ervie, as well as regional leaders, went to test it.
Having visited the well, Andrey Alekseevich Trofimuk said that the importance of the Shaim oilfield can hardly be overestimated: first of all, it is the big oil of Siberia, which will allow even more extensive exploration for oil and gas in the West Siberian Plain. He also pointed out that Shaim oil was of high quality and had low sulfur content. In this way Trofimuk hinted at its advantages over oil from the Ural-Volga regions. The peculiarities of local oil facilitated its processing into the most valuable light products.
Andrey Trofimuk was sure that the Konda River area would become a major oilfield in the country in the very near future. Yuri Georgievich Ervie, in turn, said: “This is the first big oil in Siberia, which has an industrial value. For a number of years, our explorers managed to discover oil deposits in various regions of the Asian part of the USSR. But only Tyumen geologists and drillers have produced oil that has undeniable industrial potential.”
