The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-18
In the Oil Fields
Cc.Operdtion of Independent
Refmer win independent
Producer


,ss.eeh made By y. l.. Robinson at
OEuulsoe. December a.
appreciate this opportunity OF
disgusting the subject that has been
Allotted 10 me. The Cooperation
of tho Independent Refinor with
fhc Independent Producer" ana in
,he brief time that has been givcu
me I shall lay before you some fig
ures o., your kind consideration.
/ veyl3 not for moment. II
could prejudice the Independent
proauccr against the Standard oil
company and It's subsidiaries. be-
clnse ! firmly believe there should
he cooperation between all corpo-
rations and individuals engaged in
,he same line OF business. whether
II be in the production OF oil. manu-
Mcture and sale thereof, or in the
uling or the soil. or in the coal
mining iron or railroad business
In my Judgment, 1t never pays
for corporations or individuals en-
RACED IN the same line of business
10 undertake TO operate independ-
entity or antagonistic to others on
gapd I'm the same business. This
does not mean. however, thai cor
rorstio1 or group Of corporations
nr Ind viduals engaged I'm the same
Inc Of business may not cooperate
10 q better advantage than independ-
emily. and such cooperation may be
carried on IN n perfectly legitimate
manner and in strict compliance
with the laws Of the United States
and greatly benefit all
This is already being done by tho
Standard oil company and it's sub
ha 9
co-opcration and therefore there can
be mo- reason why tho independent
producer Of oil and the independent
refincr Of oil cannot cooperate in
such % manner and be most bencfi-
cial 10 both.
We have today In the United
States $50 refineries equipped for
the refining Of crude petroleum and
the byproducts, including what we
term skimming plants. There are
370 plants in operation and 10
plants shut down. The $40 plants
in operation have an average daily
running capacity OF 1,475,725 bar
rels. Now, remember that Of the
4S0 rcfineries I'm the United states
the Standard oil company owns 81.
ieaying 4i3 Independent refineries.
including the Sinclair and Texas
company refineries which may be
classcd as very doubtful.
out OF the total Of 4S0 refincrles
there are 10 not in operation, all OF
which are Independent refineries,
and an Of the 81 belonging to the
Standard are in operation. Taking
the no independent refinorics that
are not IN operation from tho 443
independent plants. you have 33 in
dependent refincries that are being
operated with a daily capacity OF
from 100 to 10000 or $1,000 barrels.
The 81 refineries being operated by
the Standard and its subsidiaries in
the United States have a daily ca
pac.ty OF 954 900 barrels, or Go per
cent Of the total daily runs of all
the refineries. and the 271 independ-
ent refineries are running 35 per
cent of the total daily runs.
Only "A few years ago the Stand
ard Oil company, as you VIII re
member, was operating a group Of
companies under separate or as
sumed names in many different
states IN the producing, refining and
marketing business. claiming that
each was n separate and distinct
company, but cooperating with the
Standard. The government charged
at that time that the Standard by
interlock OF its directors in these va
rous companies was operating in
violation of the antitrust laws Of
the United States and after a long,
hard contested case on the part Of
the government on the one side and
the Standard on the other side, the
supreme court found that the
Standard was operating IN viola