The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-26

1.-THE Ardmore refinery, one OF the
plants operated by the International
Ardmore Refining Division, Is located
within short distance OF Ardmore'
Oklahoma, on the main line OF the
San Ia Fe railway. This refinery was
the first plant built to handle Healdton
crude in the Ardmore district and has
been an important factor In the deVel
opment of the great Healdton field.
The city of Ardmore is particularly
proud of its first refinery and believes
that the location of this plant at Ard
more was the initiation of the move
ment to make Ardmore the important
refining center Of southern oklahoma,
which it is The relationship between
the city and the refinery has always
been, and is. the most cordial.
The plant has daily capacity OF
1000 barrels of crude and to date has
operated exclusively on Healdton crude
1t Is connected to the Headton fields
by 80 miles of 4.inch and 6-inch lines
and to the numerous Healdton produc'
ing properties of the company by
network OF gathering lines extending
throughout the field. The production
of the company forms considerable
part of the daily runs ut the refinery
THE Pure Oil Pipe Line Company
owned by the Ohio Cities Gas Company
and which operates the company's pipe
lines in Oklahoma, gathers all OF the
ha
it to Oil City, where it Is accepted by
the Coine Oil Company and delivered
through this latter company's pipe lines
to Ardmore refinery under agreement
which has been in effect since the re
finery was built.
Big Storage Capacity
The refinery has storage facilities ap-
proximating 100000 barrels and occu'
pies with the tank farm, 1878 acres.
The site is well chosen and would read
lily permit of expansion should this be
necessary The Ardmore refinery IN
conjunction with the international re-
finery operates fleet of 500 tank cara
which are especially assigned to the
International Ardmore Refining DIVE
sion. but form only a portion OF the
Ohio Cities Gas Company's tank car
equipment. In addition to the main
line of the Santa Fe railway, Ardmore Is
reached by branch lines of the Frisco
and the Rock Island: the refinery thus
has exceptional facilities for moving its
products. The still equipment is as fol
lows: Seven--450 barrel crude, one
500 barrel crude, one-l 200 barrel
steamer or re-run. These are operated
in two batteries of continuous stills, four
in each battery, but If necessary two OF
the crude stills one from each battery,
can be operated as batch.
"The products marketed are gasolines,
kerosenes distillates, gas, oil and fuei
oil In addition to its shipments by tank
ear, large quantities of fuel oil are fur'
nished monthly to the Santa F'e in their
own equipment. Blending fluid Is also
furnished the company's Gasoline Plant
No. 3 operating in the Healdton field.
Early in August, 1914, construction
work was begun on the Ardmore re
finery, as it was evident at this time
that there was plenty for large skim
ming" plant to do in the neighborhood
of the Healdton field. The plant start
ed running crude January 10. 1915, but
the first battery of stills was not in com
plete running order until July of that
years; the second battery of stills was
completely installed by January, 1916.
Mr.. o. b. Males had charge of the first
construction work and Mr.. j. w. John
son completed the last addition.
In December, 1916, the Ohio Cities
Gas Company purchased all the oil pro
duction and acreage of the Gunsberg
and Foreman Company and at the same
time through these interests. purchased
the Ardmore refinery.
Produces High Grade of Gasoline
"The opinion has been abroad at diff
ferent times that Healdton crude is un'
satisfactory for the operation OF
"sllimming" plant due to the supposedly
high sulphur content of the crude ana
the low gasoline recovery which mas
been made at some plants The chemic'
ais necessary in treating, as well as
the time required, are all less per bar
rel than for the products recovered
from Cushing crude. At the present
time the Ardmore refinery is recovering
in excess of 13 12 per cent gasoline.
This gasoline, as Is evident lroih 'He us
tillation curve shown herewith, is OF
most exceptional quality and differs IN
certain specifications from any other
gasoline we know of. It's gravity aver
ages $50 with an initial boiling point
of 125 and dry end point of 800, show
ing well nigh a straight distillation line
This gasoline is particularly adapted tor
export purposes.
THE continuous process OF distllia-
ton, as used in the western refineries'
has been explained in the earlier ar
ticlc on the International refinery. AT
Ardmore when running four stills on
crude the first two give off benzine,
the third distillate, the fourth gas oil
and the still bottoms from this still go
into fuel OIL"