U.S. OIL SUPPLIES
SEARCH FOR NEW FIELDS Rugby, June 21. The United States Petroleum Administrator. Mr Ickes, said to-day that experts of the Petroleum Administration and of the oil industry had performed a miracle in discovering a means of making 100-octane aviation petrol. Speaking of America’s available supplies of oil for war purposes. Mr Ickes said that though the United States had seme 20.000,000 barrels of oil in underground reserve—equivalent to about 14 years’ consumption—it would not be possible to get it all out of the ground in that time. For that reason, the administration had made an intensive effort to find new oil fields. “Germany may well lose the war in chemistry.” Mr W. P. O'Neill, president of the General Tyre and Rubber Company, said to-day. While Germ|ji scientists had only been able to make-ai 65 per cent synthetic tyre, the United States would be making a 90 per cent, synthetic tvre by the end of 1943. and w* alreadv making one which was JP per cent, synthetic.—B.O.W,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 23 June 1943, Page 2
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