NEW REFINING PROCESS

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2242, 25 June 1929, Page 6

NEW REFINING PROCESS

100 PER CENT YIELD FROM CRUDE PETROLEUM TWO YEARS' EXPEIUMENTS (Aust. and N.Z. Cable} London, June 23. The Times New* York correspondent stales tliat the Standard Oil coin-' •pauy lias begun tbo construction near New* .Jersey of the first commercial plant in the United States tor the hydrogenation of petroleum ■under a. process for which the American rights were obtained from, the German Dye Trust. The decision to erect a plant has followed two years’ successful experiments, by w’fml], 100 per centum of petrol is recoverable from crude oil, compared with 35 to 41 per cent through, the most" modern “crashing; process” now available." Itis indicated the Standard Oil 'company regards the process as assured ol economic success and that it may revolutionise oil production methods.