Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-27
OIL TRADE PLANS
BIG EXPOSITION
Industry viii Expend More
7 Than ST, 200, 900 on An
= nuaI "Fair" at Tulsa.
BY BENNETT WOLFE,

Associated Press stan Writer.
TULSA, Okla, August 27-A hearten-
ing note in the oil industrys view OF
the future was contained in an an
nouncement today that the industry
would spend in excess of 100000 to
stage the international petroleum ex-
position and congress here, october A
to IL.
The estimate came from w. G. Skelly,
president of the exposition, and he said
he. considered such an expenditure
respectfully significant at this time,
with the industry still struggling TO
throw off the economic yoke fastened
upon it by world wide overproduct1on
OF crude oil.
Has Permanent Home.
"This expenditure" he emphasized.
@piyes a clear view of the. confidence
of the oil industry in the efficacy OF
educational work in the various
branches of the business"
The exposition, which has grown to
he the worlds fair of the oil industry, y
has a permanent home on 2O-acre
tract near the city and annually draws
oil men from all parts of the globe
where petroleum is produced. New
methods and machinery are demon
strated.
Scores of oil company executives,
Skelly said have notified the exposi-
tion officials that they will send all OF
the "key men" they can spare, ana
that superintendents in the branches
of production, refining, natural gasoline
manufacture, transportation and mar
keting were arranging to permit their
best men to attend the oil show.
''The policy of sending employees TO
the exposition" Sicily continued, be
came firmly established, following the
1929 show after a check was made by
of1cials of oil companies of the Dement'S
their men derived from witnessing the
numerous demonstrations and STUDYING
the operating and still exhibits OF the
most improved equipment OF the m
dustry."
Research work in every phase of the
oil business will be shown in the scien-
tif1c and technical division of this year S
exposition. The division is considered
the backbone of the show. Demonstra-
tons will include model pipe line
station. a model INCORPORATION plant
and other late refinery equipment, IN
GLIDING cracking plant.
Petroleum Chemistry.
The marvels of modern petroleum
chemistry and physics will be unfolded
In displays that are expected to be of
especial interest TO the general public.
Thousands OF products OF natural gas,
such as imitation ivory, alcohol, ether,
dyes, perfumes, fiavoring extracts and
the like, will be exhibited and their
derivation explained in non-technical
terms.
For the first time among the dis
plays will be a complete exhibit of the
apparatus used by the American So
ciety of Testing Materials and in the
American Petroleum Institute tests Tor
light fractions, oils greases and petro-
leum. The exhibit will include 90 diff
ferent sets of apparatus.
The week of the exposition will be
the occasion for meetings of several
American Petroleum Institute groups
and petroleum engineers. There will
be sessions of the general committees
of the institutes division of production
and marketing, the institutes board of
directors and the general committee of
the institutes division Of refining. and
the national petroleum meeting of the
American Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers.