The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-09-07
PURE OIL REFINERY
RESUMES OPERATIONS

Following shutdown OF severa
months duration, the Pure Oil Com
pany has resumed operations in its re
finery north of Ardmore. Healdton
crude is being run, a contract having
been closed with the Healdton Pipe
Line Company which calls for the
carrying of 100 900 barrels of crude pc
month from the Healdton field ito the
refinery. According to authoritative
sources, the Pure Oil people have al
ready sold I'm advance their fuel oil
output for a period of six months at a
good figure. They have been enabled
to do this chiefly through the action
OF the Coline Oil Company, which is
purchasing the entire output Of fuel
oil produced by the Cameron and I'm
perial refineries. and shipping It to
Standard of Indiana territory, thus
leaving the entire local and southwest
ern district open to the Pure Oil re-
filming interests. 1t is also pointed out
in this connection that when the Chick
hsaw Refining Company resumes opcr.
ations, il also will have a big field
TO participate in for the sale of its fuel
oil. The action of the Coline Company
u taking huge quantities of fuel oil
/out of the local territory is serving a
very beneficial purpose to the inter
ests of Ardmore industry.
The reopening of the Pure Oil plant
gives initial Employment to 50 men,
More may be added in the near future.
Three of the four refineres in this
city are now operating and it is ex'
pected that the Chickasaw plant will
he going soon. following the compile
ton Of several deals now pending.
The Pure Oil plant was the first re-
fnery to be built in Ardmore. and was
originally known as tn. "Ardmore Re
fnery Company" 1t was constructed
largely with local capital and was OPP
Grated under its first name for several
years. subsequently il passed into the
hands OF eastern capitalists, and later
was acquired by the Ohio Cities Gas
Company, which later became the Pure
O.l Company. The marketing of the
products OF the local plant and execu'
tive authority Is exercised at the Tulsa
Office of the company.
The Pure Oil Ardmore refinery Is
the largest in southern Oklahoma. 1t
has a daily capacity of 1000 barrels
Like most of the western reflnerles. ii
is what is usually described as top
ping plant" manufacturing gasoline
bcn1ne, Kerosene, gas OIL and fuel oil
No lubricants are produced.
The plant covers about 100 acres OF
land. II is equipped with II stills
there being two batteries or four stills
each, operated on the continuous pro
cess system. and four batch" or sep
aat' stills. There are three agitators
and "a tanks in the plant equipment
y O, these, l2 are rundown" tanks, II
orugc tanks, Two bleachers. two SO,
OO0 barrels capacity storage tanks fol
crude oil, one storage tank for fuel oil
for he plants own consumption, and
one "slop tank" into which is run the
waste oil gathered through sewer
nge system into which the waste o.!
from every source about the plant Is
conveyed TO he rc.handled and savct
from loss. The total storage capac.t,
OF al tdilkH - t,'VV'nuN hillOhS.
'rh.s is the molly plant In the Ard
morcd istrict having "bleachcr" tanks
VIII ch are shallow tanks, holding about
zoo barrels into which kerosene is phi
for "blcaching." These tanks hay;
windows around The ton which thi
sun and air can enter freely, and cvap
crate the wator out OF the kerosene
making The stock clear. or "whitc."
The plant has excellent railroad IA
c.litlcs including not only the custom
AIRY s'dngs for handling incoming ant
outgoing materials, but a spur across
the south s.dc OF the property wher'
there is LONG loading rack,
In charge of the local plant is John
Jeffrey. superintendent.