PETROL FROM COAL
HEW GERM PROCESS
INDEPENDENT IN A DECADE,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,
BERLIN, November 2C,
Dr Brueckmaun, director of the Mineral Oil Coal Utilisation Company, in a lecture, said that an expenditure of £20,000,0U0 to £25,000,000 would enable Germany within a decade to erect a coal refining plant to fill an annual demand of 2,500,000 tons of motor fuel by the Bergin process, which had already so progressed as to enable the extraction of 12ewt of motor fuel from a ton of coal. Plants putting out 50,000 tons were workable at a net profit of 50s a ton. PLANT FOE NEW SOUTH WALES. OIL FROM SHALE. LONDON, November 27. (Received November 28, at 9.45 a.m.) Air A. E. Drone, after six months’ investigations in Germany into the extraction of oil from coal, says that ho has purchased the rights of the Lurgi system of extraction from shale at a price enabling it to compete with well oil. He adds that ho is ordering a plant for delivery in March to operate deposits in Newnes, New South Wales.
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Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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178PETROL FROM COAL Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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