However, the chance to pad through the shadowy aisles of damp barrels, and admire the ecclesiastical architecture shouldn't be missed.
Two other barrels fell on old houses in Homs.
The anniversary party comes the day after it was announced there could be up to 100 billion barrels of oil onshore beneath the south of England.
Results suggested there may be as much as 158 million barrels of oil per square mile, causing consternation for critics of extreme energy extraction.
It is possibe there is 100bn barrels of oil lying under fields just north of Gatwick airport, as claimed by an energy company.
However, UKOG now believes it and the wider Weald Basin area could contain 158m million barrels of oil per square mile, far greater than earlier estimates of about 20m barrels.
Thanks largely to oil and gas (Qatar's natural gas reserves of some 34 trillion cubic metres are the third largest in the world, and it still has 25bn barrels of oil), the tiny Gulf state of 2.2m people has become arguably the richest country in the world, topping the world rankings of GDP per capita.
"What keeps you motivated to fight and go on?" Referring to barrel bombs widely used in Syria, he replies: "When you see a little girl killed by barrels or an old man crying cuz his house was bombed".
The two million barrels of oil pumped from the delta each day provide more than 90% of Nigeria's foreign income, but the delta communities have little to show for it beyond contamination and violence, with youths resorting to hostage-taking and extortion.
Then came the complete, unexpurgated Grimm's Fairy Tales, which my parents ordered by mail, unaware that it would contain so many red-hot shoes, barrels full of nails and mangled bodies.
These days, Takoradi is a hub of activity for barrels of a different kind of oil – crude – which have transformed Ghana's economy into one of the fastest growing in the world.
