The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-08
PIPE LINE FINISHED
CONNECTS OIL WELLS OF INDIAN TERRITORY WITH GULF COAST.
This Ia The Largest Undertaking In History Of Petroleum Industry And Cost Five Million
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Baltimore, Md, Sept. 7.--(Special) )-- In its issue of this week The Manu- lecturers Record publishes details of the completion at @ cost of $5,OOO,OOV of a pipe line connecting the oil fields in the Indian Territory with the Texaa Gulf coast, one of the largest under takinRs of the kind in the history of the petroleum industry.
 The work was done by the Gulf Pipe Line Company in exactly six months and represents the laying of eight inch pipe from the Glenn Pool 150 miles through the Indian Territory and 265 miles through Texas to Sour Lake where connection is made with pipe line leading thirty-five miles to the refinery and docks at Port Arthur, Tex. This makes a total of 450 miles long which will require 125,00o barrels Of oil to fill. Six pumping stations have been erected, each having two 37,50o- barrel steel storage tanks, and the line will have a daily capacity of between 12,O00 and 14,000 barrels.
 The Texas Company of Beaumont, another organization operating in the same field, has completed it's eight Inch pipe line from a point two miles South of Tulsa, I. T., to West Dallas, Texas a distance of 270 miles, and It is ex- pected that the company will be send Ing OH LnTOuBh lO IOLI <AANhAA by SNAA uary 1. It will have nine pumping sta tions on it's new line and is completing at west Dallas steel storage, with A capacity of 45O,000 barrels and 8 separating plant.
 The gulf coast region of Texas and Louisiana had a record breaking pro- duction in 1905 but since then there has been a decrease in that field coin cident with development In the Indian Territory, where in the Glenn Pool held more than TOO wells hve been com pleted and where far months past, the daily production has exceeded 75,OOO barrels and if facilities could have been provided to handle the full ca pacity of the wells. 1t might just as easv had been 100000 or 10000 barrels a day. ,.
 The companies having large invest rnents in refineries in Southeast TeXas were confronted with a somewhat seri- ous proposition when the production or oil in the Gulf Coast region began 10 fail. Their requirements amounted to 10000 or 25,00O barrels a. oay gnu gnu stocks were being drawn upon to the extent of 30,000 barrels or more day If was inevitable that they should look to the Indian Territory in making plans for their future supply
 The excellent quality of the Terri tory crude for refining purposes, as compared with Gulf Coast, oil. which is heavy and better adapted to fuel use than to refining. was a further at traction. With an adequate supply Of Indian Territory oil the Southeast Texas refiners figured that they would ba upon an equal basis with their Eastern competitors, who were and are now getting a large part of their sup ply of crude from the Territory.
 The importance of the Southeast re- fining industry is greatly increased now tbot nlentiful supply of high grade crude oil has been assured. The facili- lies for handling refined products from Port Arthur when shipments are made Iisb aod continental ports are unsur- passed and with the completion of the Banana Canal the Texas refineries will have a, vast advantage over those on the Eastern seaboard m s stoaeos noSs,11n nao o- ffof1