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The development of oil exploitation teaching in Podkarpacie region

The beginning of oil exploitation teaching in inseparably connected with Ignacy Łukasiewicz, who distillated oil in 1852. Łukasiewicz created first oil lamp the year after that and he helped to develop oil lights in the hospital in Lwów. Thanks to him the first oil mine in Poland was established in Bobrka. In Ulaszowice (not far from Jasło) the first distillation factory was set up. The firs Kongres naftowy galicyjskiej nafty was established and as a result the National Oil Committee was established.

In 1885 the first vocational school of oil drilling was established in oil mine in Ropienka near Dukla, the school was named The Practical School of Canadian Drilling. Zenon Suszycki-Turczynowicz was the organizer and the first headmaster of this school. In 1888 the school was moved to Wietrzno, were it started the new activity as The Regular Drilling School two years later. The school was moved from Wietrzno to Borysław (where the huge growth of oil exploitation started) as a result of financial difficulties caused by the limitation of oil exploitation in Wietrzno and Bóbrka. In that place the school was opened under the name Wyższa szkoła Górnicza i Wiertnicza and was working as such until 1908, when it was re-organized and adapted to teaching managers in mineral oil mines. The name of the school was also changed into Krajowa Szkoła Górnicza i Wiertnicza. The education period in the school lasted 3 years and it educated only 15 people each year. During the I World War (1914-1918) the school was closed.

In 1928 the school started the education of people connected to the supervision of movement in oil mines. It was given a new name then: Wyższa Szkoła Wiertnicza. The education period in the school lasted 2 years and the lectures were twice a day- in the morning and in the evening. It enabled people to both work in the mine and learn. The headmasters of the school were (in order of working): Kazimierz Gąsiorowski, Kazimierz Szumski, Kazimierz Miński, Józef Wojnar, Franciszek Blończyk.

Between 1939 and 1941 the school existed under the name Szkoła Burilszczyków and it was closed between July 1941 and January 1942 because Borysław was taken by German army.

In September 1944 the teachers of oil education started to organize a new school Instytut Naftowy in Krosno. They created a special committee for education in which Pawłowski, Ostaszewski, Zaborowski, Baranowski, Michnik and Waliduda worked. The participants of the commission were to renew the bases ot oil education and to organize oil schooling system in Krosno.

The rules and teaching programmes made by the committee were given to the new school on 7^th January 1945. the school named Szkoła Naftowa was opened in Dom Kultury Górnika-Naftowca under the supervision of Waliduda as the headmaster. Students coming from another town were provided with a dormitory in the building which had belonged before to the director of oil factory in Krosno. The school was meant to educate adults selected by factories and companies in which they worked.

In 1947 the school changed its name into Gimnazjum Przemysłowe Kopalnictwa Naftowego and it was situated in a building inBuczka Street(nowNaftowa Street). The headmaster of the school, Kazimierz Pękalski, hired new teachers: Walerian Ratajczak, Leopold Słotwiński, Włodzimierz Haja. Professional subjects were lectured by workers of Instytut Naftowy like Stanisława Gierlaszyńska, Władysław Dubis, Stanisław Rachwał, Stanisław Krimmer, Janina Czajkowska, Stanisław Lemart.

In June 1950 Gimnazjum Przemysłowe Kopalnictwa Naftowego was closed but a new school was opened and the name was given to it – Liceum Przemysłowe Kopalnictwa Naftowego. In the same time, which is from 1^st September 1950, two new schools for teenage learners were opened – Technikum Przemysłu Naftowego and Zasadnicza Szkoła Przemysłu Naftowego. After one year of existence Liceum was closed and its learners were moved to Technikum, where Maksymilian Mojak was the headmaster, from 1^st January 1951. Zasadnicza Szkoła Przemysłu naftowego existed in Krosno till 1955, when it was moved to Jasło because of the problems with location and buildings.

The Technikum, technical school, gained three new specializations in 1951:

oil drilling,
oil and gas exploitation,
Exploratory geology.

In 1947 the school was ledby the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in 1948 it was maintained by Central Direction of Fluid Fuels under the Ministry of Mining. From 1952 the school was directly maintained by the Ministry of Mining. In 1955 the responsibility was set to Ministry of Oil and in 1957 to the Central Vocational School Administration. In 1958 the total responsibility for school was sent to the Ministry of Education.

In 1960 The Curator opened the other school under the same name, so the building of a new school was necessary. Unfortunately, it was impossible to get the money for this aim from the Ministry, so the school returned to the Ministry of Mining, on the basis of the deal from14th January 1963.

From this year on the beginning of rebuild of the school started, additionally with the dormitory and a pitch. The whole endeavor was finished in 1967 and the opening was celebrated on 31^st of October 1967. On the same day the school was named after Ignacy Łukasiewicz and on the same day the headmaster was given the flag and honorable swords for representation.

On 1^st September 1977 the Ministry of Mining decided that the school should have a neme: Zespół Szkół Zawodowych Ministerstwa Górnictwa and that it should contain all schools which were so far in the building inBohaterów Weterplatte street. In the former building inKolejowa street remained vocational school which educated young learners in oil and gas directions.

On 1^st September 1997 The Ministry Of Education decided that The School was to be administered by the Curator of Education in Krosno and that the name of the School must be changed into Zespół Szkół Naftowo-Gazowniczych im, Ignacego Łukasiewicza. The new school consisted of the Technical School of Ecology, Technical School of Geology and theVocational School ofOil Exploitation.

From then on the school has undergone various changes which have led to its growth and which caused that the school became well known in the whole country.