The Region of the Eternal Fire: An Account of a Journey to the Petroleum Region of the Caspian in 1883

Afghan Afghanistan American oil annexation of Merv Apsheron peninsula Armenian army Askabad Baku oil Baku petroleum Balakhani Batoum Black Sea Bokhara boring Cabul Candahar Caspian region Caspian Sea Caucasus Central Asia coal coast Company conveyed copecks Cossack crude petroleum distance Droojba Empire engineer England English Europe export feet firms fleet fountain frontier gallons of oil Geok Tepé German ground Herat India industry journey kerosine Kertch Khiva Kizil Arvat Krasnovodsk liquid fuel London Ludwig Nobel Merv miles million gallons naphtha Nobel Brothers Novorossisk oasis Odessa operations pass passengers Persian pipe-line pipes port possesses Poti Quetta refined refineries reservoirs road roubles route running Russian Government Russian railway sand Sarakhs Sevastopol Skobeleff spouted station steam steamers supply Surakhani Suram tank-cars Tiflis tion tons town traffic Transcaspian Transcaspian Railway Transcaucasian Railway transport traveller troops Tsaritzin tube Turcoman Turkestan vessels Volga whole