一百年前,石油工業在美丽富饶的罗馬尼亚国土上出现了。全世界第一座炼油厂是在1857年8月在普罗什蒂附近的勒弗夫地方投入生产的,那年罗馬尼亚石油的产量是275吨。同年4月,布加勒斯特成为世界上第一个使用煤油灯照明的城市。两年后,美国的石油产量达到274吨,而罗馬尼亚的产量已上升到605吨了。罗馬尼亚石油及化学工業部部长米·弗洛列斯庫说得好:“1857年不仅是罗馬尼亚石油工業的开端,而且也是世界石油工业的开端。”在被掠夺的日子里但是,罗馬尼亚的石油財富一开始就引起了外国资本的垂涎,它們把它当作一个获得最大利潤的源泉。早在1862年,一家名叫約克逊·布朗的英国公司就在罗馬尼亚成立,它在二年后發展成为資本雄厚的“瓦 A hundred years ago, the oil industry appeared on the beautiful and rich Romanian land. The first oil refinery in the world was put into operation in August 1857 at the Lefv near Proche, when Romania produced 275 tons of oil. In the same year in April, Bucharest became the first city in the world to use kerosene lamp lighting. Two years later, the United States reached 274 tons of oil production, while Romania’s production has risen to 605 tons. The Romanian Minister of Petroleum and Chemical Industry, M. Florescu, puts it well: “In 1857 it was not only the beginning of the Romanian oil industry but also the beginning of the world oil industry.” In a time of plunder However, Romania’s oil wealth initially aroused the coveting of foreign capital as a source of maximum profits. As early as 1862, a British company named Jonathan Brown was established in Romania, and two years later it became a well-capitalized "watt