Historical oil production in Germany 1871-1954

When Shell closed its physical library in 2020, they offered the remaining stock to its employees. Many classics in were in there, in addition to a lot of old stuff which would have been trashed otherwise. One of the older things I picked up purely out of curiosity was a “Diplomarbeit”/M.Sc. Thesis on oil production in West Germany between 1879-1954. Some of the data from that thesis I am making available here.

The citation is:

Sydow_Dipl_1955.bib

@thesis{Sydow.Dipl.1955,
	author = {Sydow, Richard},
	date-added = {2021-03-06 15:40:35 +0100},
	date-modified = {2021-03-06 15:43:28 +0100},
	institution = {Universit{\"a}t Hamburg},
	language = {deu},
	location = {Hamburg, Germany},
	pages = {52},
	title = {{Die Entwicklung der Erd{\"o}l-Gewinnung und -Verarbeitung in Westdeutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkriege}},
	type = {Diplomarbeit},
	year = {1955},
	annote = {Origin: Biblioteek Koninklijke Shell Exploratie en Productie Laboratorium, Volmerlaan 6, Rijswijk (Z.H.). KSEPL Library E711 55-001}}

If you end up using the data published here, please cite the URL and the version of this site.

Fig 1: “Zahlentafel 1. Die deutsche Erdölförderung von 1871 bis 1954”

The data can be downloaded as simple text file below. If you end up using the data for any purpose, please cite the thesis as well as the URL of this page. Also note that the data is provided under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, any commercial use requires prior permission.

DE_HistoricalOilProduction.txt

# Citation:
# URL: https://wiki.paleoearthlabs.org/scientificdata/de_historicaloilproduction
# Source:
# Richard Sydow. Die Entwicklung der Erdöl-Gewinnung und -Verarbeitung 
# in Westdeutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkriege, 1955. 
# Diplomarbeit, Universität Hamburg, Deutschland
#
# Table 1/Zahlentafel 1
# ----------------------------
# Year Production
1871 267 
1872 409 
1873 1700 
1874 892 
1875 781 
1876 592 
1877 865 
1878 845 
1879 895 
1880 1309 
1881 4108 
1882 8158 
1883 3755 
1884 6490 
1885 5815 
1886 10385 
1887 10444 
1888 11920 
1889 9591 
1890 15226 
1891 15340 
1892 14527 
1893 13974 
1894 17465 
1895 17051 
1896 20395 
1897 23303 
1898 25987 
1899 27027 
1900 50375 
1901 44095 
1902 49725 
1903 62680 
1904 89620 
1905 73869 
1906 81350 
1907 106379 
1908 141900 
1909 143244 
1910 145168 
1911 142992 
1912 134986 
1913 49725 
1914 121082 
1915 110347 
1916 99258 
1917 92664 
1918 90643 
1919 89323 
1920 37440 
1921 35026 
1922 41995 
1923 50770 
1924 59352 
1926 79124 
1925 95421 
1927 96904 
1928 92029 
1929 103306 
1930 173859 
1931 228522 
1932 229799 
1933 238511 
1934 314635 
1935 429678 
1936 444653 
1937 453339 
1938 552074 
1939 740783 
1940 1056137 
1941 901306 
1942 742754 
1943 711168 
1944 721936 
1945 547441 
1946 649711 
1947 576617 
1948 635240 
1949 841576 
1950 1118616 
1951 1366685 
1962 1755430 
1953 2188703 
1954 2666321