PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC GASOLINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000701220001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY: Spain _
SUBJECT: Production of Synthetic Gasoline
Place Acquired:
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Date Acquired: M
Date of Info: Apr 53
SOURCE:
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"Translated from the Spanish Bulletin of
Commercial Information, issued by the
Ministry of Commerce - May 21, 1953
"THE PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC GASOLINE
1. "In recent talks with press reporters, by one of the technical men
in the Research Center of the National Undertaking Calvo Sotelo,
he pointed out that the problem of the production of synthetic
gasoline at the Puertollano plant had been discussed, in relation
to its economical aspect. From these statements it may be con-
cluded that although up to the present time synthetic gasoline
comes up to a higher price than petroleum gasoline, in the mentioned
plant the gasoline is just one of the products that will be turned
out there and not in a large percentage, so that the economical
operation of the process is assured by the simultaneous production
of other products, especially lubricating oils.
2. ,t Puertollano, 17,000 tons of gasoline a year will be produced
against.x+5,000 tons of various lubricants. Production of gasoline
means only about 5% of the national consumption, while lubricants
will cover 75% of the spanish market, a significant figure for the
industrialization of the country that is being brought about in the
past few years.
3. "On the other hand, with the 200,000 tons of petroleum gasoline pro-
duced in the Refinery of Escombreras and 80,000 tons in Tenerife,
the Spanish market is only short of another 130,000 tons, while in
respect of gas-oil and fuel-oil national production covers by far
present demand, although the increasing future needs of the country
may warrant the establishment of new refineries, either in locations
where prospecting for oil is in progress - in case positive results
are met - or otherwise in some part where crude oil may be unloaded."
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