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Karlino oil eruption
 Blowout preventer from the Daszewo - 1 drill hole, now kept at Oil Museum at Bóbrka, Krosno County | |
| Date | 9 December 1980 – 8 January 1981 |
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| Location | Karlino, Poland |
| Non-fatal injuries | 1 soldier |
| Property damage |
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The Karlino oil eruption was an oil well blowout that took place on 9 December 1980, near Karlino, a town located in Pomerania in northern Poland, near the Baltic Sea coast. The eruption and the fire that followed it put an end to the hope of Poland becoming a "second Kuwait".[1] It took more than a month for Polish, Soviet and Hungarian firefighters to completely extinguish the fire.[2] The eruption was the result of an extensive search for underground oil deposits that took place in the area in 1980.
- ^ Co to jest RSS?. "Kalendarium wydarzeń - Kalendarium - Polska.pl". Kalendarium.polska.pl. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
- ^ History of Gmina Karlino[permanent dead link] "The fire was finally brought under control on the night of 13 January".
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