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TURKMEN

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Aug 31, 2014 9:08 pm

Have not found much on this ship, only what I found on the internet. The stamp was issued by Turkmenistan in 1994 for the 115th anniversary of the creation of the Nobel Brothers Petroleum Company.
The stamp shows the tanker/tug TURKMEN the first of two diesel engine tugs ever built and used in oil transportation.
The TURKMEN and SART were used to tow barges loaded with oil upstreams the Volga River.
The diesel engines of the tanker/tugs were manufactured by another Nobel company in St Petersburg.
More info welcome.

Turkmenistan 1994 1,50 m sg39, scott40
turkmen on turkmenistan 1994 1m50 sg 39


So far not much info on the ship has appeared, but the following information from a website written by Hugo Vargas gives useful information on the set of stamps issued by Turkmenistan in 1994. The stamps were issued due to the 115th Anniversary of the creation of the Nobel Brothers Petroleum Company. When Robert Noble purchased his first refinery in Baku, he acquired some land on the Cheleken Island off the coast of what is now Turkmenistan on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea due east of Baku. There, on that isolated island Turkomans were involved in the exploitation and mining of ozocerite,a solid paste mixture of hydrocarbons (mainly paraffin) of dark brown color which was sold and used as fuel, lubricant and waterproofing. The ozocerite was mined by hand by digging around in some of the active little mounds;know as “mud volcanoes” which were formed by oil and gas seepage. The Turkmenistan

1 Manat stamp shows one of those “mud volcanoes”.Since these “mud volcanoes” were familiar indications of the prolific oil fields in Baku, Robert Noble decided to explore for oil on the Cheleken Island, too. In the early 1880s, he drilled two wells but the results were poor, he soon gave up exploration. Several years later, however, Karl Vasiliyevich Hagelin, a manager of the Noble Brothers Company, by chance learned about the wells and in 1901 organized an expedition to study their potential. As geologists and engineers could carry out research with a better understanding of the oil reservoirs and with more advanced drilling techniques, it wasn’t surprising that oil was discovered on the island.Turkemenistan’s

2-Manat stamp shows one of the first rigs used to explore the island.Cheleken Islands’s crude oil was unusually rich in paraffin. Knowing that Russia was importing considerable quantities of paraffin, Hagelin decided to develop and produce this rare type of crude, and he installed the first paraffin refinery in Russia to process the crude.

The 1.5 manat stamp shows the tanker/tug TURKMEN the first of two diesel engine tugs ever built and used in oil transportation. The TURKMEN and the SART were used to pull barges up the Volga River. Both tugs used engines manufactured by another Nobel company in St Petersburg.

The 3 Manat stamp depicts the three Nobel brothers and Peter Bildering.
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