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Show FURTHER OIL . CUTSASKED Calif. Producers Would Increase Prorating ' to ANOKLKfi, July tl. Draetla pinching la of wll ta southern fields was tb immediate result ef Standard oil a refusal la taks any surplus over ' amount specified by contract, coupled wit h requeet by producers' prorating eommlttee that cuts la pipe line runs be Increased frera 1 per cent I 41 per cent . until peak of predftctloa had In many tnat a aces whsr companies have been enable to ft ad new marketing market-ing foe ties lor their surplus, wells have been shut la: others have beea out te leas thsn a third their normal flow. Km 11 operators sr hardest hit by the order, end wbether they wilt be able to weather the etorm la a matter of 'doubt, as the majority srs bound by tight elases aad dpeadeat ea their out- I put for fiaanelag ether rejects aader wsr. I Meanwhile new storage Is being roehed to complatloa and praetlcally every large operating company haa Issued orders or-ders for addltlorel taakag. Union Oil has Just Completed flvs ooncrete reser-votra reser-votra at Wilmington harbor wltb total aapasrity of 1,111.111 barrela Similar amounts will be svsllabls shortly for Stand rd. Associated, Kile 11 and Generel ; Petroleum. Pan-Amerlcan'a entrance I hes been to recent te aoroaaptieh much Is long theee line, but Its agents are aoourleg the fields offering long term contract St market price, which Indt-'caies Indt-'caies th company will be ready to handle han-dle the crude shortly, aad la a algnlfl-eent algnlfl-eent factor In support of unverllfleO reports that this company Is seeking pip line permits and store ge sites to ton- aert with It refinery to b butlt at tha harbor, Bt'lXDIXO BMEBTOIKS. General petroleum this week aa sowteed a tl.tM.Mt program for igfateea additional taaka with total capacity ca-pacity ef 1.444, tee barrels, st Its harbor har-bor terminal at Kaet Sen Pdre. Con-erete Con-erete retaining wall Is finished and workmen are reedy te begin on nw taaka. Company already la building twe 1 till -barrel concrete reservoirs at Comptoa. about half way between loe Angelea and Lens Beach, and aaeily as-tveseible as-tveseible to H three seathern flelda Hut were all this Increased storage , available far Immediate use it wouio aot be adequate te bndl ths predicted lacreaea In produotle fer the Best three month, and producer are eadeavortn to bold back as many aa possible of w walls scheduled for completion. Prom a eareful survey made by the producer's executive committee. 111.444 barrels a day will be added te present output of the three southern field before be-fore th end ef aVptember, whea 141 new wells are expected In. By the time ell are agreed th peak will have ben passed and a decline will be apparent. ap-parent. Until then a sharp Upward trend Is unavotdabls. Ths eemmltte estimates potential dally average tor July at T41.IIS barrels; for August, T,-74 T,-74 barrela; for aetember. Ill, III barrels bar-rels but expecte downward trend t reduce latter figure te 444,111 box re 1 by the end ef November. Paslng Its Action upon the salov-1st salov-1st tons, mads by field exp-rte. the committee com-mittee eoacludee pipe lioee aad tank farms, supplemented with such new facilities fa-cilities now under aoaetructloa, will be unable t take more then II per eent in this period, and urea opera tore to ; Join In a general curtailment program t keep at least 41 per eent of the oil la tha smMBt. nlng esrtranc Into tb prndrjellea end here aad eome surprlee hae beea evinced be has made no effort to do as. ae bis alee department, with headquarter at ioe Angeles, Is wsll Intrenched. Recent visit ef glaciate official renewed re-newed thee rumor, and the secrecy surrotndlag efforts te merit smaller companion, particularly In long Beerh and the amouat of capital apparently available to put ever the merger favor Psn-Amertcaa or glnclair as the meet logical, aad some Interostisg devtiep-Ricnt devtiep-Ricnt are freely forecast. On effect of these vartaa movement move-ment hee beea evident la the etrength-eaed etrength-eaed undertone given the market during tk totter half of the week, aad a cea-eerted cea-eerted effort I being evinced by all tail ta-il erects te check auy movement which I would bring about another out tn the price of crude, frost which It would take j eCelefjeeBee I Added te the Induct ry't trouble eome ssaouncemeat of renewed activity In northern fields, principally In nan Jua-quin Jua-quin valley, where Pen-Amortcea and Pacific Oil have Inaugurated aa latea-etve latea-etve offset pragram. BIO CvMPAMKE BATTLE. On Its Elk Hills naval reeerve contract. con-tract. Psn-Amerlcan is drilling wells to offset Stah4lard aad Pacific Wellg patented land In eastern nd, of ' the reeerve and )uet outside Hs llmlta. : From flan Prsnctsc eome word that Pacific Oil deems It necessary to effect. 1 nd thla bae precipitated a dealal from j Pan-Americaa. Since ao aliotisge I m sight t war-rent war-rent expaaatea la the north, this unexpected un-expected move hae elicited considerable eetmmeat. and M take as further Indication Indi-cation that tb big coin pa alee have be-gua be-gua the real struggls ftr supremacy ef th California situ ties. In th souih Pan-American I pushing 'Its grilling with sll poselbt speed sad ha fir well drilling Jte La lea Pacific Pa-cific right cf way lease st Leng Beach, twe en Its Wslher Westera lease, and th'S week startled th field by Its Isten- 1 lion to drill let wells en the seutb flsak ' of Signal bill, an area hitherto regarded 1 with little favor. bould raited OH succeed In getting a good well sr Los Cerritos, a mil west of th nearest producer, pro-ducer, be duplicated by Fea-Amorirsa te the south, another revision ef eetlmatee on the life mi Long Beasb field would be nesresjaary. At Huatlngtoo beach. Pas-A merles hae five well drilling and rig up for a sixth, while He hetdioge are large In Tei rence-Red'mde field, and much of the territory aurreuadJ ag promistBS aildcata. Applioalloa by partte who Idewrtty wss net dieeleeed foy permit to bull pipe line from Long Reach t th harbor. har-bor. eUrec eel field gossip eot-e mor toward Pen-American end ths ftln-clair ftln-clair intere-fia There beve been per. axstent ruors that Sinclair wa pa)- |