Evening star., 1943-04-04
WPB Approves Plans
For New Oil Pipeline
From Texas 10 East
lckes Warns Public
Increased Facilities
Moy Not Meet Needs
BY the Associated Press.

''os - ~S~~
May Not Meet Needs
BY the Associated Press.
New facilities for pouring oil
into the Eastern Seaboard were
announced yesterday. but Pc
troleum Administrator Ickes
warned there is no assurance
that continued restrictions on
fuel oil consumption next winter
will not be necessary.
Mr.. Ickes reported:
Extension OF the second war emer-
gency pipeline-a 20-incher-all the
way to the East Coast from Texas
by way of Indiana has been ap-
proved by the War Production
Board
The head end Of an expected 30
000- -barrel-a day stream of gasoline,
kerosene and light fuel oil is mov-
ing through the newly completed
179-mile extension of the Planta-
ton Pipeline between Greensboro,
N. c., and Richmond, Va.
New Unloading Facilities.
At the same time Joseph B. East
man, defense transportation director.
announced plans for immediate con-
struction of almost a million dollars
worth of unloading facilities In the
East to speed the turn around of
tank cars carrying oil to the Allan
tic Seaboard.
Commenting on the Plantation
Pipeline. Mr.. Ickes said:
The front of the line-fill column
Of approximately $4,000 barrels of
gasoline will reach Richmond in
about 10 days. Barge and tank car
shipments to more northerly con-
sumption centers will commence at
that time. Initial deliveries at Rich
mond will run about $4,000 barrels
day"
The Greensboro Richmond ex-
tension Of the Plantation Pipeline
is the Eastern outlet of a system
that now extends 1,214 miles from
the major refining areas of the
Texas Gulf Coast and Southern
louisiana to Virginia.
The WPB's approval Of the East
ern extension of the second war
emergency pipeline was given by its
Requirements Committee, which
found fabrication of the pipe could
be scheduled at the steel mills with
out interference with other urgent
war programs.
The first emergency pipeline-a
24-incher extending from Texas to
Illinois, then eastward-is nearing
completion. Construction of the
first section of the 20-inch line
from Texas to Indiana-was ap-
proved in January.
Work on this second line, Mr..
1ckes said will start as soon as the
larger line is completed, with con-
struction being carried out stimuli
taneously on the Texas-Indiana and
1ndiana-East Coast legs.
When completed, the second line
will have a miximum delivery ca
pacity Of 235 600 barrels of petroleum
products a day, Mr. Ickes added.
*AItwill provide an added margin
Of assurance that the expanding
operations of our armed forces and
those of our United Nations Allies
can continue to be fueled fully and
on time.
I'VE have the green light on ma
terials. but between the refineries
of Texas and actual deliveries Of
petroleum products at the Eastern
outlet OF the pipeline. there are
1890 miles of tough, execting con-
| struction work and only 241 days for
| doing the job if we are to meet the
schedules We have set.
That schedule calls for the de-
| livery of pproximately 900 bar
rels of petroleum products-70 per
cent of the lines capacity through
out-by December of this year
The 20-inch line to be financed
| by the Government will cost about
SIS, ,o0o,O
Earlier yesterday Mr.. 1ckes made
public letter to Representative
Snyder. Democrat, of Pennsylvania,
chairman of a House Appropriations
Subcommittee, in which he said:
If we are guided by the facts
before us today, we can conclude
only that we are by no means out
of the woods; that to enter next
winter as well supplied as we were
| this winter represents a coloxsal