The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-09
in THE OIL FIELDS
Offices e24i ". H. PECK Residence z442

iAs independent friends, the Export
on corporation, according to re-
flncrs who know. but will round up
new business and will thus help
move n lot of the refined stuff out
~ tho country, where IL viii not
compete In American markets.
Tho Union Petroleum company.
now owned by tho Sinclair people,
which was IN fSct the first cx-
porter, is doing big business In
belgium, whore money is more plen-
tiful than anywhere else In the
eastern hemisphere. and has taken
over the largest distributing plant
IN that country built by Germany
for use during the German occupa-
don,
Tho Pure oil company, through
lta exporting branch. tho Puritan
on company. Is also establishing "A
firm fuUthold In various parts OF
the European countries. ana has re-.
Gently announced the acquisition OF
large plant at Antwerp.
The Export on corporation, which
has been shipping an average of / :
cnrgooa a month. ip the pioneer since
the war as an exporting concern,
and has butt up "A most cpsInble
reputation on account OF prices II
has offered the rcflncr, and IL giilI
paying. which price is nid to be
abos. cents gallon better than
is offcTcdsby some ~ the big people
for distribution In tho United states
This Is "A plain business PROPOSE
lion, so the Export does not believe
the refincr can survive and soil his
s,utf below cost of production.
Even at that, n business proposi'
tlon that carries with II the Golden
Rule, and everything that ~ good
In these days OF cut-throat prices.
In no remarkable as to be well
worth recording here once again
II will have "A tendency to stop un-
necessary and unfair competition In
the export line. because one thing
Is absolutely certain and that IN tina,
the Independent rcfiner In the mid
continent field knows by experience
"A good thing when no sees II, and
further. has the moral courage to
figlA for his friends.
But all this brings TO mind tn"
time when, before the wac, there
was "a delegation OF refincrs called
to Germany by the thcn--autocrat
OF them all. Emperor william, who
proposed To find >out II there was a
supply Of gasoline available from
the midcontincnt field, provided he
succeeded In putting the STANDARD
out OF Germany. Then tho bill.
which passed the rcichstag at q
second reading. was beautifully
killed, because the only other OIL
concern In Germany issued n state
inent to the effectohat II the stand
ard was put out OF tho country. It
would Immediately raise tho price
OF refined stuff 2 cents per gal
Ion.
Whatever might have happened
Will never be known, because the
war started and now Germany with
only enough oil within her borders
to fili n few beer bottles. In expert
menting on tthe distiilation OF oil
from brown coal (braunkohD, which
liz tho poorest quality OF coal known
and In apparently making grea
headway under the guidance oi
| Herr Professor" who is turnint
out al! the products Of petroleum
from .lubricating oil to gasoline
| anailne dcs and vaseiinc. and II
| soon, according to his press agents
| about 10 he In a position to tell thu
world to go to-as II will be In
| position to turn out everythinp
needed In the way Of lubricants and
Illuminating oils because the suppl,
| OF this cheap brown coal Is exceed
lnglv great.
This then, In the menace to thu
| oil industry. NO far az exporting u
| concerned. and Il behoovos the in
| dependent refiner and his fricnt
| the marketer 10 watch out and worl
| assiduously to prevent n monopoly
such as only Germany can brinI
about. which might In time sprea'
TO other countries.