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19 dead and 97 wounded. 101 civilians killed and 238 injured. Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943, during World War II. It was a strategic bombing mission and part of the "oil campaign" to deny petroleum ...
Teleajen River in Prahova County. Ploiești lies in the center of Muntenia, in the central-northern part of the Wallachian Plain. It lies close to the capital city Bucharest and it had close connections with the capital city throughout the centuries. Ploiești lies at the 25°E meridian and the 44°55’N parallel (north).
120 metres (chimney) Technical details. Floor area. 380 hectares (40,902,860 sq ft) Petrotel Lukoil Refinery is one of the largest Romanian oil refineries and one of the largest in Eastern Europe, located in Ploieşti, Prahova County. Its main activity is the processing of Romanian and Russian oil, but a separate unit is specialised in ...
The Brazi refinery on fire in 1943. Petrobrazi was founded on 17 June 1934 by the Creditul Minier Society in a strategic industrial zone of 440 ha (4.4 km 2) located in Southern Romania near Ploiești. [3] The first oil processing capacity was established in 1934 and had a processing capacity of 300,000 tonnes/year. [1]
Ploiești Tramway. Map of the former routes. Nowadays only routes 101 and 102 exist. Ploiești Tramway is a light rail tram system serving Ploiești, Romania. It began operation in 1987, the first tram system in Ploiesti. It is owned by TCE Ploiești. The system is 100% modernised.
www .upg-ploiesti .ro. Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești ( Universitatea Petrol-Gaze, UPG) is a public university in Ploiești, Romania. Founded in 1948 under the name of Institute of Petroleum and Gas, in response to the increasing industrialization in Romania and the lack of high level education in the petroleum and gas fields, it gained ...
Background. The Republic of Ploiești is the name of a movement from 8 August 1870, considered as the last great attempt of revolution in the Romanian space of the 19th century or the last wave of the revolution of 1848. In the Romanian historiography before 1989, this movement was considered anti-dynastic.
Away colours. Fotbal Club Prahova Ploiești, ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈprahova ploˈjeʃtʲ] ), commonly known as Prahova Ploiești or simply as Prahova, is a Romanian football club based in Ploiești, Prahova County. Prahova was founded in 1909 under the name of United Ploiești and it became soon one of the best teams in the country ...