PETROLEUM PRODUCTION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: March 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DATE DISTR.30 Isar 1954
25X1
NO. OF PAGES 5
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
1. The UM.SR ]gas three great petroleum areas; South Russia, Central Russia
a..u .iberia. Down to 1946 911 Soviet petroleum production was under the
Commissariat for the Petroleum Industry. In that year, to provide for greater
elasticity, the Commissariat was broken up into a Ministry for Central and
South Russia, and another for Siberia. In 1948 these ministries were again
united. As a general observation, it may be said that the Soviet oil fields
will only remain highly productive for a relatively limited space of time,
sines few pumps have been installed to replace natural pressure when it falls
off.
2. Production figures for resent years have been;
1949 - 34.600;000 tons
1950 - 36,700 .No N
1951 42,500,000 "
1952 - 48,300,000
3. This production may be broken up as follows: (in millions of tons)
a.
South Russian fields
1949
W o
1951
1952
Ukraine
0.02
0.01
0.01
0.01
Cris-in,
0.10
0.08
0.06
0.02
Orosny
2.3
1.8
1.2
1.1
Maikop
0.T
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x49 1950 1951 1952
Dagestan
0.9
-
-
Embs,
1.45
1.2
1.1
1.0
Baku
22.0
21.0
20.1
21.2
Kura.
0.7
0.3
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-
b,
Central Russian fields
Kama
'
0.33
0.15
-
U
ral-Volga
1.8
3.6
11.05
13.2
Petshora
0.5
0.3
-
C.
Siberian fields
Bukbara-Verge.m
1.13
0.7
-
Turkmenistan
1.1
1.6
2.2
3.1
Yenisei
0.2
0.4
1.0
1.3
Sakhalin
0.9
1.3
2.5
3.4
4. These figures demonstrated that the weight of production has shifted remarkably
toward Central Russia. Strategic conditions have played a large part in this
development. The ideal is to give cash district'"fuel autonomy" and the same
consideration has played a part in the intensification of activity in the
Siberian fields.
5. Baku. This field includes the greater part of the Aspheron Peninsula, and
h the most important of all, Currently some 30 sources are exploited. It
has been noted recently that productivity is decreasing. Deeper borings have
~~ssn undertaken, partly for strategic reasons, partly also because
i 1 ? een lacking for such an enterprise: The loss has been made up by
new drillings to lesser depths in strategically less endangered areas, for
example, the Urals, which have acquired the name of "the second Baku,."
6. Grow. Next to Baku, the fields at arosxW ad Naikop were the met important be-
fore l&gar II. Due to over-exploitation during the war, the productivity of
tneae i'ielc-. uropped off greatly, A restoration of production Is pos? e, if
aVmethods were modernized. . But as at Baku strategic and fiasaial. aor4itio$s
live prevented and the old methods are still in use.
7. .- The Nilkop tree, In the-?northeast Caucasus along the lower Kuban to the
... - -
. aa? s des -a mach
lighter oil than Saki, ant a' t. part of air rorce fuel is refined from
Naikop oil,
8. Emba. The Bobs, field reaches northeast from the northern boundary of the
Mplan Sea into the neighborhood east of the Urals, It is steppe country,
very poor in water, Production has been doubled sines World Bar II.
9. Ural-Vo . The center of this wide field, in which oil was only discovered
in 1932# Is the Uta-Nagnitorosk-Chakalov triangle, The field is thus. in a
strategically well protected area, and the Soviets have accordingly paid
special attention to its development, providing it with the most modern
machinery, partly from the US, and part1v mmeh1nern dismantled in Rumania,
Production is more than ten time the preld War. :.II figure.
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10. Special fields. The fields on Sakhalin Island deserve special mention.
Production , ere has recently greatly inereased;~the oil-going to Khabarovsk
to be refined. The oil pea through a pipeline from Mo$kalvo aa' Mikolaytvak.
It sho*Ld be noted that the production in.aalitia1 whit .t eeamS -Soviet after
the war,.is limited to a few thousand tons a year.
11. 041 pipelines in the _Soviet Union
Length
Diameter Deily Capac
ity
Baku-Ratum
820 ,foe
25 oa 3000 tons
Baku-Batum (2nd line)
89o ks
20 on 2000 tons
1aber-3ash .(?)?Makhe.tsh Kala
65 km
20 an 1500 tons
Orsk-Ouryev .
845 tat
30 on 4500-5000
tons
Koskiagyl (?)-patkat (?)
96 . km
20 -en 2000 tons
Rakusba ( ) -.DesWa
56 ka
20 'es 3000 tons
Armvir-uorlovla
490 alai.
304a 4500-5000
tons
(1ro=W - J pe0,
615 im
25 an 3000 tons
M kbaob1calata"=
l
160 ks
30 on 10000 tons
.
*,Oobek 0) -urvxr y
90 km
20 as 3000''tons
Ogba (or Okha)-Mee, lvo (?)
.32ke
25 as 3000 tons
Mt1k0p-Krasnovodsk-
,110. kk
20 to- 2000 tons
dkbab1-4gba (or, 0k*Jai.') .
18 kk
25 an .3000 tens
*rsassi (?)-Kskiwti (? )
40 ka
20 on 2000 tons
K-a Rrnv ik Aekbabad.
480 ka
25 on 4000 tons
Isbiabai ?-Ufa
x65 km
15 on- '2000, tons
Zehiabr i 1 ne.)
165ka
15csi ''.'26* tons
Tnist zy ('a -ufa
150 km
30 on :.3000 tons
liblonovo (?4i+Ba,traki (33sran)
72 ka
30 on 3000 'tot-s
;
~rsrab~+8abrakl
25 ka
25 an 3000 tons
Odessa-Kiev
Meskalvo (.? )-Sakhalin Island
ilNtw Construct
'J1 figures avai
ion
lable
12.. Only a. ou 25 paswnt o~ . the pettoleem produced' is transferred by -pipeline;
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i'ee +riea end river..; tickers and, bhe rsasining 40 ,parent
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13. : bee* available. figures gigs. O;. rertine=a1'bW-Q'Sfh
Russia. Identified refineries are in Europe:
fiROM
Baku (t'ivo refineries
Tatum
Berdyansk
Boulova (?)
Burguruslan (?)
Chelyabinsk
G.?Gorodki (?)
Drobobyes (Drogobys
Oleboks, (Sanbur)
Gorki
Qrosny
Purvev
isbisbai ?9
!skin* (? )
(4 refiner r1 r
Daily Capasitz
7,000 tons
`t Wn
36O
700 tens
500 tone
7,700 tons
900 tons
700 tons
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