PETROL AND OIL

Northern Advocate, 21 September 1933, Page 6

PETROL AND OIL

ABSTRACTION FROM COAL BIG SCHEMES IN BRITAIN. TEN PLANTS PROPOSED. ESTIMATED COST £7,000,000. (British Official Wireless.) (Received'!) a.m.) RUGBY, September 19. In connection with the proposals for the production' of petrol and heavy fuel oil from British coal, a scheme for the erection of ten low-temperature carbonisation plants and one hydro generator plant, at a total cost of £7,000,000, was considered by the Industrial Development Council of South Wales at a meeting in Cardiff yesterday. •

It was estimated that the hydro generating plant would produce 100,000 tons of petrol a -year from about 304,000 tons of coal, and would provide permanent employment for about 10,000 men for one year. The ten low-temperature carbonisation plants would treat 3,650,000 tons of coal a year and produce about 240,000 tons of heavy oil, 140,000 tons of light oil, 70,000 tons of petrol, 3,220,000,000 cubic feet of surplus gas, and 3,520,000 tons of smokeless fuel. These plants would provide permanent employment for 4000 miners and 1400 process workers, and temporary work for .1200 men for one year. The projects. were fully discussed and the scheme ultimately Avas referred to the committee already appointed to inA'estigato the question, with power to add technicians and commercial representatives to their number, and to a report to a further meeting of the council.