PETROLEUM PRODUCTION

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PENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Petroleum Production
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DATE DISTR.30 idar 1954
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1. The USSR . iras three groat petroleum areas; South Russia, Central Russia
~...~. olboria. Down to 1946 all 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,
since few pumps have been installed to replace natural pressure when it falls
off.
2.
Production figures for recent years have been:
1949
- 34,600,000 tons
1950
- 36,700,000 u
1951
- 42.500.000
1952
- 48,300,000
3.
This production may be broken up as follows: (in millions of tons)
1949
1950
1951
22
Ukraine
0.02
0.01
0.01
0.01
Crim^A.
0.10
0.08
o.06
0.02
Grozny
2,3
1.8
1.2
1.1
14aikop
0.7
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1950
1951
1952
Dagestan
0.9
-
-
-
Emba
1.45
1.2
1.1
1.0
Baku
22.C
21.0
20.1
21.2
Kura
0.7
0.3
-
-
Kama
0.33
0.15
-
-
Ural-Volga
1.8
3.6
11.05
13.2
Petshora
0.5
0.3
-
-
Bukhara-Fergana
1.13
0.7
-
Turkmenistan
1.1
1.6
2.2
~.l
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 each 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 Asphoron Peninsula, and
isThe most important of all. Currently some 30 sources are exploited. It
has been noted recently that productivity is decreasing. Deeper borings have
sp,,fc~ npt.,been undertaken, partly for strategic reasons, partly also because
capital' ias been lacking for such an enterprise. The loss has been wade up by
now drillings to lesser depths in strategically less endangered areas, for
example, the. Urals, which have acquired the name of "the second Baku."
6. Grozn'. Next to Raku, the fields at Grozny Ad Maikop were the most important be-
fore World War II. Due ':o over-exploits u.Lun curing the agar, the productivity of
tnoae ainA.._ jeopped off greatly. A restoration of production is possible, if
methods were modernized. But as at Baku strategic and financial conditions
have prevented =end the old methods are still in use.
7. Maik'G . The Maikop area, in the northwest Caucasus along the lower Kuban to the
Taman Peninsula, was badly damaged durins World War II. Haikop produces a much
lighter oil than Baku, and a great part of air rorce rues is reiinau rrutn
Maikop oil.
E3. Emba. The Emba field roaches northeast from the northern boundary of the
ie.apian sea into the neighborhood east of the Urals. It is steppe country,
very poor in water. Production has been doubled since World War II.
9. Ural-vole. The center of this wide field, in which oil was only discovered
in 1932, In the Ufa-Magnitoroak-Chakalov triangle. The field is thus in 3
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 U$, and part].. -ehinerv dismantled in Rumania.
Production is more than ten times the pro-World War II figure.
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'10. Special fields. The fields on Sakhalin Island deserve special reniion.
Production there has recently greatly tncregsed; the, oil going to Khabaruvsk
to be refined. The oil goes through a pipeline from Moskalvo a?nc' Nikolayevsk.
It should be noted that the production in Galicia, whieh.became.Soviet after
the war, is limited to a fow thousand tons a year.
Line
Length
Diameter
Deily Capacity
Baku-Tatum
820 I=
25 an
3000 ton
s
Baku-aatum (2nd line)
890 km
20 om
2000 ton
s
laber-Bash ('-)-Makhatsh Kala
65 km
20 am
1500 ton
s
Crsk-Guryev
845 km
30 cm
4500-500
0 tons
Koskiapy-l (?)-Matkat (?)
96 km
20 em
2000 ton
s
Rakusha Duvocr?i
56 km
20 an
3000 ton
s
Armavir-uorlovka
490 ksi
30 an
4500-500
0 tcns
Oroeny iuapee
615 km
25 an
3000 ton
s
YakYachka1a-4roxa
160 km
30 an
10000 ton
s
Maglodek &:j-?r" r.yy
90 km
20 cm
3000 ton
s
Ogba (or Okha)-Mosk...lvo (?)
32 km
25 an
3000 ton
s
Maikop-Krasnovodek
110 km
20 cm
2000 ton
s
Kkhabi-Ogbn (or Okha)
18 km
25 cm
3000 ton
s
Mirsawni (?)-Kekh_ret? (?)
40 km
20 ce
2000 ton
s
^^^^
k Aekhabad
480 km
25 an
4000 ton
s
Xshimbai
(?)-Ufa
205 km
15 on-
2000 ton
s
Zahimbri
(?)-Ufa (2: 'no)
165 km
15 an
2600 ton
s
Tuimmzy (
-Ufa
150 km
30 cm
3000 ton
s
Yablonovo
(?')?Batraki (Syzran)
72 km
cai
3000 ton
s
sycren-Batraki
25 km
25 cm
3000 ton
s.
Odessa-Kiev
Moskalvo (?),-Sakhalin Island
Under construction
No figures available
12,. Only ab,out 25 percent of, the. petroleum produced is transferred by pipeline.,
about'}5'.'peroant. ;hY_{:?;ea and river tankers and the remaining 40 percent 'by
reilroA.,ra r,~tz.
TO beet available figures give 43 retinerti ~Si ''?uz4opdb -and''}' cA latitii-`
Russia, Identified refineries are In Europe:
Ref 1.nerr
Daily Capaacit7
Baku Lr:vc refineries)
7,000 tons
Tatum
300 'toh1
Bordyansk
700 tons
Boulova. (? )
500 tons
Burgurusla.n (? )
7.700 tons
Chelyabinsk
900
tons
0. Gorodki (?)
700
tons
Drohobycz :DrogobyeA
) (4 rofineri
11110.2.000
tons
Gleboke (Samba:')
200
tons
rorki
1,500
tons
Groeny
7.000
tons
(urvev
150
tons
Iehimbai (?: )
700
tons
Iskine (?)
300
tons
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. Refinery Daily Oapacity
Kazan 600
tons
Kherson 700
tons
Krasnodar. Maikop) 2.000
tons
Kuibyshev (2 refineries) 1,000
tons
Leningrad 700
tons
Makhatsh Kale 300
tons
Molotov (2 refineries) 500
tons
Moses. (?) 1,900
tons
Nadvorna. 50
tons
Munracs 50
tons
Nebit-Dag ?00
tons
Nokolaiev ? 00
tons
Novoboga:inakoye (Noio Boyatinakig) 70
tons
vaesse 700
tons
700
Or'k
tons
Saratov 5,000
tons
se;,rnovo 700
tons
tiI'J::lU-
Stalingrad 3,000
tens
1,000
tons
''Surv 30
tons
Syzran 300
tons
Tiflis (Tbilisi 2,000
tons
Tuapse 1,500
tons
_
"iimnn (?) 600
tons
Ukbta 700
tons
CV,
Ustrzyki.Dolne 60
tons
l;lll.Itl~lDeVt.
yuxudiav 700
tons
.
~.a:nzn
Zniesienie (Lemberg) 60
tons
Identified refineries in Asiatic Russia
gei ez2a? (four refineries)
Irkutsk
Khabarovsk
Komsomolsk
Kraanovodosk
Krasnoyarsk (TZ'LtTti~
pnglmlvo
Nikolsevek
ViaalvusGuk
1,500 tons
700 tons
1,000 tons
??500~tons?
400 tons
600 tons
400 tons
500 tons
700 tons
14. It is to be noted with regard to the Soviet refinery syotem that it is
devoted especially to the production of heavy petroleum products (kerosene,
Diesel oil and heavy lubricants), in view of the heavy demands of industry
forDiesel oil and of the population for kerosene. AS a result the eleborote
cracking plants of other countries are lacking. The Soviets depend mainly
on installations dismantled from Germany. for their lights petroleum products.
One of these is in Krasnoyarsk with a yearly production of 50,000 tons. But
in general the production of these ex-German installations is very limited,
and fuelr&M,,pt4Rn lmolti,tftir' them.
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15. The production of natural methane gas began in the early part of the war,
but has now been enormously developed. Important gas pipelines have been
built for the use of Industry, as well as installations for packing gas in
cylinders.
16. The moat important gas pipelines are:
Line Length
saratov-Moscow 840 laa 38.5 an
(This line earries the production of 22 gas wells)
Ylabanka?-?aratov 30 38.5 - K5.4 an
Dasbava *ipv ;~66 C, J Ic~ (. 30 ca
bnrausllov-Kill n,?..,. ,? 155 ka 25 as
Palvantasb-Leninaki No data
Pravoderethnoze (4) QrozmV 30 Ian
VA1~7Anewo (9)-Do Mw~ ne o (9) 32 i
Kohtla-Java-?Leningrad 203 1o
and r? ]
;,.4;::t [ Ste` st333 C - t:: !`~i:_ s~ GOB
: ")"V-5/735-5 N
4-5/735.5 4N
4-5/735.5 318N
4-5/735.5 338N
4-5/735.5 238N
4.5/735.5 321N
4-5/735.5 118N
4-5/.
73555 19N
9
4-5/735.5 69N
4-5/735.5 529N
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-735.533 8N
735.533 19N
735.5 321N
735.54 338N
735.54 1 N
735.54 8N
795.511 ft_~.?
735.54 N
735.54 IN
735.54 42N
735.54 229N
735.54 9N
735.54 N
*'.,;;? 735.54 59N
735.4,
735.3 77N9N
735 43 N
735.43 4N