| Abstract |
Hungarian geologists played a crucial role in the research of the Subcarpathia region already before World War I, or, more specifically, in the last century. Research fellows of the Ukrainian Geological Survey still respect their early results and the geological concept based on them. The Subcarpathian Research Centre of the Ukrainian Geological Survey (Lvov) is situated in Beregovo. The research system and management developed during the Soviet era used to work with a very high number of drilling per metre, which was typical of the then socialist countries. This approach in turn resulted in the decrease of quality of the geophysical measurements. Therefore, the information given by the Survey, stating that 13.000 deep drillings were effectuated in the area since 1947, seems quite unrealistic. During this very same socialist period, less drillings were made on the area of the entire Hungary i.e. 93 000 km2 than on this 13.000 km2 area. As no detailed data are available concerning the Ukrainian drillings, we assume that the above number contains the ordinary water and metal research drills. Also, due to the lack of data concerning the depth, we are not able to classify neither the deep, nor the shallow drillings according to the Ukrainian terminology, which makes them even more difficult to compare to the Hungarian system. However, it is obvious that intensive research activity has been carried out in the Subcarpathian region. As the Galicia area used to have well known hydrocarbon reserves during the era of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, attempts were made to clarify the situation within the Carpathian basin as well. |