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Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist
The Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist in Twist, Germany is a museum for crude oil and natural gas and shows technical equipment for mineral exploration of these natural energy resources and gives information about their geological origin. History In 1938 a gas rig found natural gas around the city of Bentheim. In early 1942 the rig LINGEN 2 found crude oil around the village of Dalum. These wells were the beginning of a long drilling history in the region. Later on the counties Emsland, Graftschaft Bentheim and the nearby Dutch province of Drenthe became one of the most important oil production areas for crude oil and natural gas in the whole of Europe. Because of this long historical connection between the region and the oil production the idea came up off founding a technical museum that shows how the oil production worked and still works. In 1999 the museum was established and is a part of the voluntary association, registered association Heimathaus Twist. In the beginning, the mu ...
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