Since time immemorial, they knew that the best way to get rid of their vermin was to wallow in the oily puddles of the forests of northern Alsace. They were, no doubt, the first users of the Pechelbronn oil, soon followed by man who, for centuries, made use of the oily slick floating on the surface of the Pechelbronn spring to lubricate cart wheels and to cure tooth ache, gout and wounds.
We know today that the real future of the « sulphurous gold » was not in the home, the workshop, or medicine, but in the industrial adventure of black gold.
Nothing in common of course, between the Pechelbronn oil-field (3.300.000 tonnes of oil from to 1735 to 1964) and the production of the smallest oil-field of the Middle-East.
It is here, however, that in 1813 the first research drilling was made with a manual drill, that the first school of oil technology was created, the forerunner of the current “Institut Français du Pétrole”, and here too that in 1927, Conrad Schlumberger made the first electric logging.
The equipment, documents and reproduction collected in the museum bear witness to these events. We invite you to visit them