The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-04

liuo and in tanker loading aud uu.
loading. Ihcy are rIoh lu Eronsrp.
make excellent asphalt. ana az fuel
Iuil are par excellence.
Tho south folds Include all that
Itcrrltury wing bptwcru mo tushurrt
liver tSouth " TampicoJ south TO
IThNpun and beyond n Includes tho
lhir situated Juan tHalHno, Topctatc.
IChlnampa. Las Nhranios, the new
llatamiXtlo ana lntoco pools, CCrrp
lAzul, Iotrcro del fdauu and H..
Alamo. names which are now in
dcllbly associated with world famous
IRushors The oh Of the south field
IiH tho hlghoW I'm gravity pro-
lduccd IN tho republic IN volume
IHufiCiont Tor commercial considcrn-
tlou. Under modern refining meth.
DDS u yields ns much ss - per cent.
First run refinery gasoline, rich in
kerosene. low cold tost lubricants.
laud while olasscd HH Asphaitum base
contains about 10 per cont pagaffld.
The wclls In this region yield "A tre.
uenduus volume of natural gas. rich
IN gasoline, with prcssuroa az high
as 100 pounds,
In'1or Ia priCc RcductlOn.
Hut fow American oil mon give a
! Thought concerning tho enormous
| quantity Of crude oil from the South
| iicidH OF Mexico that enter the re-
! iincrlcs OF this country. Atlantic
ana Gulr scaboard reflnerles ara
! using all they cnn got. The u. y.
! bureau OF Mines report that during
] tho year 1920 tho petroleum rofln-
cries OF the United states ran C1,-
/ l3G,2i0 barrcls Of Mexican crude oil
ana 2,b13,O7i barrels OF Mexican
| tops through the stills, total OF
81, o6,2Si barrels. Tnls is more OF
than was produced ia this country
! during any one year 10 and including
tho year 1900. period OF ~ years,
| 10 10 moro oil than was produced
east OF the MlAHlHslppt river last
| year, with Wyumings output OF H.
| IO7l 900 barrels added. In addition
TO tho many topping plants operated
| To capacity In Mexico, several Of
which outrank In size ana capacity
any such typg ot refinery In tho
| United states, two complete refinor-
lee are In operation; they are tho
| Pierco-Fordyce association plant sit
uatcd east uf TampiCo. almost with
In the corporate limits Of the city
ana the Royal Dutch Shell. formerly
Pearson interests, plant at Minatit-
Ian, 1sthmuB OF TehuantepeC. Tho
quantity OF gasoline, kerosene. gas,
| oil, the various grades OF lubricatiug
oils ana greasos that were shipped
into this country last year, the out
put OF these plants has not been
made public. This much IL known,
however, that the quantity was
sufflcicnt 20 reduce tho market
quotation of all grades Of crude oil
produced east OF tholtocky mountains
ono-half, which entails "a loss daily
10 the oil producers OF from Si,T50,-
600 TO sl,900,O00. causing "A partial
suspension OF drilling operations,
thereby throwing out of employment
II vast army OF oil well workers. The
result OF this is far reaching, as
manufacturers OF oil we'll supplies
ana oil town merchants viii testify.
Had the oil producers Investigated
the reason why the market quota
tion per barrel for Gulf Coast crude
was advanced from 81 December &,
1919, To 50 April l3. 1920, they
would have learned OF the wonder
ful achievements OF the petroleum
chemist In the refining OF the black
heavy asphaltum crude oils Tho
same can bc applied to the black
lnsphaltum crude oils OF California.
recent report or the bureau of
mines covers the output OF petroleum
reflncries. The report shows the
results of dIstillatlon In the various
Districts. the figures are interesting,
hs tHeS DtlIt Solhe stuNeintllh NHl'n
are generally common. For In
stance, the Atlantic Seaboard refn-
crics use practically the same
amount OF crude ns the California
rcfinorlea. The latter. outside OF
ono of two plants and the standard
plants. have no cracking processes.
Yet from an equal amount of crude
they recovered moro than 8S,O00,00O
gallons OF gasoline, or more than
half the amount produced in the
east.
New Cracking Process.
George Blasdonc, Mexican resident
correspondent for the OH n Gas
journal. contributed the following
In his weekly letter appearing in
the April 4, 1920. issue;
THAT the latest cracking process
now coming into use In certain re-
fincrics In the United states can
materially increase the yield of gas
ulinv from Mexican crude appears
to be borne out by reports on
reasonably good authority that now
reach here. II H. stated that South
field oil, the 2O-2l Baumc gravity
production of Mexico, Is yielding
under these processes as much as
"a per cent gasoline Of "a gravity,
while PAnuco crude, the heavy oil
Baume by tho time It rs landed In
Nif AlllA'h NihA'0l ~ Ns'lhAllf ~
much as l6 per cent OF like gravity"
In March, 1920, II. X. kingsbury
president OF the Standapd OH COM
pany OF California made an An-
nouncement in an open letter ad-
dressed to the state railroad COM
misslen OF California, that his COM
pany was Installing at its three re-
fineriCs, at cost OF $4,000, 900 now
processes by which tho company es-
Inmates that more refined products
including gasolino will be recovered
from crude oil, in such quantities
that the company's production of
fuel oil, within a year, Will be ne
cessarily lesacned about 80 per cent, |
or about 10000 barrels "a day
The California cracking process |
has undoubtedly hoou introduced In |
Mexico, and IL the new process re- |
ferred 10 by Hlasdone, IL may be |
TO state that moro than |
500 100000 gallons or gasoline was
produced from petroleum produced
from American owned properties in
Mexico in 1919, and the output from |
the same source In 1920 IL estimated |
at over 7O0.000,000 gallons, The man
who has held 90 the belief that Mex
lean crude was fuel oil only, not
suitable for refining, has painful